Revealed: World Technology Network's innovators of 2012
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An artist's impression of SpaceX's Dragon in orbit. SpaceX snared the Corporate Space award
MakerBot's Replicator. MakerBot were handed the Corporate IT Hardware award
Robotic quadrotor research Vijay Kumar won the IT Hardware Individual award
Leap Motion won the IT Software Corporate award. This is its Leap Motion sensor
The Wyss Institute picked up Corporate and Individual awards. Earlier this year it developed this “gut-on-a-chip”
Laurence Kemball-Cook of Pavegen, which developed an in-ground energy harvesting technology, scooped the Individual Energy award
Ekso Bionics was awarded the Corporate Health & Medicine award
Aydogan Ozcan, whose UCLA research group developed this, the world's smallest telemedicine microscope, was awarded the Individual Health & Medicine gong (Photo: Ozcan Research Group @ UCLA)
Disney Research's Olivier Bau and Ivan Poupyrev won the Entertainment award for their work on REVEL
Voice message company uWhisp was given the Marketing Communications award
Gizmag reveals the winners of the World Technology Summit & Awards 2012 (Photo: Ben Chau)
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The World Technology Network summoned leading thinkers to New York's TIME Conference Center on Monday and Tuesday to announce the winners of its 2012 World Technology Summit & Awards. The awards showcase the work of innovators across a diverse array of industry sectors and scientific fields. Gizmag reveals the list of winners, which includes no shortage of familiar faces.
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