Tech Awards: From Needle-Free Injections to Rice Generated Power

On Tuesday last week, the Silicon Valley based Tech Museum announced the winners of its annual Tech Awards, which recognize new technology or innovative uses of existing technology to improve the lives of people around the world.
While the awards attracted over 1000 nominations, only 15, across five categories: environment, economic development, education, equality, and health, were selected. Of these 5 organizations--one per category--received $50,000.


This year’s laureates include PharmaJet—for its needle-free injection technology, the BBC World Service Trust—for offering audio and SMS English lessons through mobile phones to mobile users in Bangladesh for less than 1.5 cents per minute, to ToughStuff for its affordable, portable solar products, and to Husk Power Systems for a technology that filters the released gas from rice husks to power generators that make electricity.



The awards are open to both for and non-profits and are yet another instance of how organizations are doing good while also making money.


For a full list of this year's winners, click here.