Students hope for nicotine lift-off
Two students are hoping a flurry of publicity around their award-winning design will boost their careers.
University of Portsmouth students Kim Franckeiss and Sarah Matthews were featured in The News yesterday after scooping a prize for a product that could not only help smokers stay fresh and clean but also help replace their craving for nicotine.
Their designs for a shower gel, lip balm and deodorant product could be developed to administer a nicotine replacement, in the same way as a conventional patch works.
Their Nic-Rou-Tine product designs won them 2,000 and membership of the Fellows of the Royal Society.
A number of radio interviews and a piece in a national newspaper have followed and Sarah, 23, said: 'It would be great if after all this we could see if the products could be made.
'There's no reason why they couldn't be but we are designers, not scientists, so we would love to find out what we could do.
'The other thing is hopefully people in the industry will see it, give us some work experience and hopefully we'll get jobs.'
The pair beat off more than 800 students for the RSA Design Directions competition to come up with an idea for over-the-counter products to help smokers quit that would be easy to use and convenient.
>> Vote in our latest web poll.
Email to a friend
Print this page
Looking for...
Featured advertisers
Jobs
Search for a job
Motors
Search for a car
Property
Search for a house
Weather for Portsmouth
Saturday 26 May 2012
Today
Sunny
Temperature: 13 C to 24 C
Wind Speed: 24 mph
Wind direction: East
Tomorrow
Sunny
Temperature: 12 C to 21 C
Wind Speed: 15 mph
Wind direction: South
