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Student Mum Designs Inflatable CotA mother-of-three is promising to make family holidays a more lightweight affair.
As part of her studies at Wolverhampton University, Jo Bradford, 37, has invented an inflatable cot.
Easily foldable and lighter than its metal and wooden equivalents, Jo hopes it will revolutionise the market and make travel abroad easier.
Jo, an accounts assistant until she joined university in 1998, is now marketing the cot and has received more than 200 orders in her first week.
She said: "I remember going on holiday with the kids. Carrying a cot was a pain.
"It was no good for staying below the hand luggage weight limit on planes and it was too bulky."
Jo, who has three daughters aged seven, nine and 18, came up with the inflatable cot idea when carrying out a project for her degree course in computer-aided design.
She said: "We had to design a product from scratch. It couldn't be anything that was already around, in one form or another.
"I went to my tutor with three or four ideas, but they were all turned down."
Among her other ideas were a tagging device for children, in case they got lost, and a tarpaulin dispenser.
In the end, inspiration came from within the family.
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