Life Jacket Designs innovation awards - see them work, live!

8:28 PM Mon 28 Mar 2011 GMT

'2011 Boat US life jacket innovation winners' .

If you think that life jackets have to be bulky, uncomfortable or hot to wear, the winners of the 'Innovation in Life Jacket Design Competition', shown below in three separate videos, will prove you wrong. The BoatUS Foundation and Underwriter's Laboratory recently announced the winners of their 2011 competition, and you may be surprised at how much the inventive designs break new ground. The Competition, which began last year and was open to anyone, asked a simple question: Can you build a better life jacket? Of the original 35 entries (some from as far away as Malaysia), 15 semi-finalists were ...

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