Photos: The business boat race

A 'vision mitt' which its inventors claim enables wearers to see via touch has survived an Oxbridge Dragons' Den and scooped a £5,000 cheque to help get its budding business off the ground.

The competition was hosted by the Oxford Said Business School and saw Cambridge and Oxford students pitching their ideas to a group of judges and facing an eight-minute grilling from the panel.

The competition - sponsored by businesses including 3i and Microsoft - was dominated by healthcare ventures, with three out of six of the finalists pitching medical-based enterprises.

Cambridge-based start-up TouchSight scooped the first prize to help develop its mobility aids for blind or partially sighted people.

Pictured here is the panel of judges - including Michael Birch, co-founder and CEO of social networking site Bebo; Peter Jones, entrepreneur and of Dragons' Den fame; and Martha Lane Fox, co-founder of lastminute.com - along with the two-minute timer finalists had to adher to when pitching their ideas.

Photo credit: Greg Smolonski, Photovibe