Wallace & Gromit present - A World of Cracking Ideas

The Intellectual Property Office buries time capsule to celebrate 85,000 ‘cracking ideas’ from Britain’s budding young innovators

85,000 young innovators submitted ideas to The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) after visiting the Wallace & Gromit Present a World of Cracking Ideas exhibition at The Science Museum, which is sponsored by the IPO. Children were asked to come up with ‘cracking ideas’ they’d like to see in the future, and results included robot postmen, underwater transport and power generating footwear.

The capsule has now been buried in the grounds of the Intellectual Property Office in Newport where it will be re-opened in 2020 to discover which of the inventions have made it in to reality.

Some of the ideas to be buried include:

‘Billy the Cook’, the creative genius of Robert Unsworth, aged 13 from, Lancashire. This robot chef complete with feet made of recycled tin cans and arms composed of disposable stacking cups will prepare any dish on demand.

Ieuan Cooke, aged 10, from South Wales, thinks his Ieuan Dryer could be the answer to early morning laziness in the future. The machine saves on towels by drying your post bath body in a cubicle through which hot air circulates.

‘The Deep Diver’ by Tyona Higgins, aged 11 from Tyne and Wear, is the underwater means to get from A to B of the future. Complete with super-vision lights, a specially developed flotation device and a password activated navigation system could it be a common mode of transport in 2020?

Budding innovators can visit Wallace & Gromit Present A World of Cracking Ideas at the Science Museum until Sunday 1 November and see inside 62 West Wallaby Street, the famous home of Wallace & Gromit, whilst interacting with some of Wallace’s own cracking contraptions such as the Tellyscope II, the Piella Propellor and the Blend-o-Matic.

To read a review of the event from CBBC Newsround Press Packer, Priyanka, visit the CBBC website!