An interactive skeleton, an exercise bike which powers the TV and a vacuum cleaner which collects balls from sports fields are among the wacky but potentially lucrative inventions by the other teams that are vying with Eyemouth for the Business Experience award.

The competition will make its debut at the Borders at the new Scottish Borders College campus in Galashiels on Tuesday December 8 and 16 teams will take part in total including teams from Dalkieth, Hawick, Jedburgh, Kelso, Selkirk and last year's winning school, Lasswade High.

Each team will be given a theoretical budget to hire business experts in various fields in the event and then pitch their ideas to a panel of experts including on-line 'Dragon' Shaf Rasul.

'The Business Experience,' designed to encourage enterprise and introduce senior school pupils to the idea of starting their own business, is organised by Essential HR which provides a range of employment services including graduate recruitment and student placements. The project is supported and funded by the Scottish Government's 'Determined to Succeed' programme.

To qualify for the final, the team from Eyemouth High recently beat off competition from other Business Management and Accounting and Finance students at their school, after impressing with their invention of prescription spectacles with inter-changeable frames.

And Business Education teacher, Andrea Barclay said she was really proud of the pupils for coming up with such an inventive idea.

She commented: "Amongst the Business Management class were a few students who wear glasses and they said there are many times when they have bought an outfit and wished their glasses matched, so that's where the idea came from.

"They showed great initiative by asking for wire from the school's art department so they could produce a prototype to show the bank manager.

"I've never heard of an idea like this before and all the teachers at the school are very impressed. The ones who wear glasses have said they'd definitely buy the product."

Among other business proposals by participating teams are an LED light system which reminds householders when to water their plants, an extendable curving toilet brush and non-tangling earphones.

The Borders, hosting the event for the first time, will be hoping to build on a strong showing last year when Selkirk High School finished runner-up and Jedburgh Grammar School was commended.

"The event is an excellent and exciting way to allow young people to put into practice what they have learned at school and elsewhere, and improve their business skills," said Miriam Smith, Director of Essential HR.

"It helps develop an early spirit of enterprise which is vital for the success of Scotland's economy."

As well as Dragons Den's Shaf Rosul, whose wealth was estimated at £48 million in the recent Sunday Times Rich List, teams will also be judged by Ryan Falconer, MD of multimedia software training company Mediaroots and a Scottish Entrepreneur of the Year finalist; Caspian Wood, author of 'From Acorns …' and founder of Editions Publishing; David Duke, MD of social enterprise Street Soccer Scotland; and Gordon Brown of Borders-based telecoms company GBT.