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14 year old designer Ayla Hutchinson wins Innovation award
For Immediate Release: 14 year old designer Ayla Hutchinson wins 'Most Inspiring Individual' at the 2013 New Zealand Innovation award
Ayla Hutchinson, a year 9 student from Taranaki is the inventor of the 'Kindling Cracker', a unique invention which has solved the world wide need of safely for splitting firewood into kindling.
She has just won the prestigious 2013 NZ Innovators Award for the ‘Most Inspiring Individual’ and she is only 14 years old.
She comes from a long line of unique thinkers and inventors and is currently receiving interest from across the globe about her product
The story begins when her own mother cut her hand whilst cutting kindling and as a school science project Ayla came up with and developed a prototype of the concept. She then took this to Fieldays and won the Mystery Creek Fieldays 2013 ‘Young Inventor of the Year’ award and the James and Wells IP award, Ayla then used these awards winnings to fund the next stage of getting her product to market and successfully achieved this with no other financial help, it is now cast in metal and engineered to withstand a lifetime of use.
It has made splitting kindling an enjoyable task and is great for everyone from the young and old, the strong able bodied to people with physical impairments/disabilities. It also looks so good it could be a work of art yet it is strong, robust and exceptionally functional and is available to purchase from her website.
Orders can be placed at www.kindlingcracker.com
Short product Description
The Kindling Cracker allows people to make kindling without dangerously wielding an axe past their hands. Safe and easy to use due to its unique design which includes a safety ring, the kindling cracker operates by tapping wood with a mallet onto a stationary blade that splits it. It requires less force to split wood than using an axe and is suitable for people with arthritis and other disabilities too.
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Innovators Website: http://www.innovators.org.nz/index.php/winners-a-finalists/winners-201
Kindling Cracker Website: http://www.kindlingcracker.com
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