Harvard students build $6,500 award-winning headset to screen athletes for concussions in 60 seconds

Harvard students-- Radhika Saran, Cleo Pontone and Sophia DeVito-- build $6,500 award-winning headset to screen athletes for concussions in 60 seconds Three Harvard students have built a low-cost infrared headset that can screen athletes for possible concussions in about 60 seconds, bringing objective eye-tracking data from the clinic to the sideline. Their invention, called Rumble Rims, was named the 2026 US winner of the James Dyson Award and comes with a $6,500 prize to support further development. While the team emphasises that the device is a screening tool and not a diagnostic system, they say it could help coaches and families make clearer, faster decisions about whether an athlete should be removed from play and referred for medical evaluation, according to a PR Newswire release about the award.The gap the students wanted to closeConcussions are a persistent concern in youth and amateur sport. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that about seven in ten emergency department visits for sports and recreation related traumatic brain injuries involve children aged 17 and under, with contact sports accounting for roughly 45 percent of these cases. Sepa...