Since 1999, the editors of Technology Review have honored the young innovators whose inventions and research we find most exciting; today that collection is the TR35, a list of technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35. Their work--spanning medicine, computing, communications, electronics, nanotechnology, and more--is changing our world.
2008 Innovator of the Year: JB Straubel
2008 Humanitarian of the Year: Aimée Rose
Blaise Agüera y Arcas
Building immersive 3-D environments
Theodore Betley
Re-creating photosynthesis
Martin Burke
Molecular diversity
Dries Buytaert
Simple, flexible Web publishing
Christopher Chang
Probing chemical reactions in the body
Michelle Chang
Designing microbes to make fuels and drugs
Jenova Chen
Gaming with the flow
Tanzeem Choudhury
Inferring social networks automatically
Peter L. Corsell
Making the electric grid smart
Jack Dorsey
Personal updates made simple
Stefanus Du Toit
Programming for parallel processors
Nicholas Fang
Superlenses for watching cells
Ric Fulop
Energizing rechargeable batteries
Julia Greer
Revealing how materials behave at the nanoscale
Hossam Haick
Sniffing out cancer
Seth Hallem
Deconstructing software to find bugs
Donhee Ham
Portable nuclear magnetic resonance
Konrad Hochedlinger
Turning adult cells into stem cells
Xian-Sheng Hua
Enhancing video search
Sundar Iyer
Making memory at Internet speed
Jeffrey Karp
Gecko-inspired surgical tape
Farinaz Koushanfar
Locking microchips to prevent piracy
Johnny Lee
Streamlining human-computer interactions
Meredith Ringel Morris
Searching websites jointly
Andrew Ng
Building household robots
Kostya Novoselov
Two-dimensional transistors
Milica Radisic
Patching damaged hearts
Aimée Rose
Ultrasensitive detectors to sniff out explosives
Bilal Shafi
Preventing congestive heart failure
Adam Smith
Making sense of e-mail madness
JB Straubel
Engineering electric sports cars
Joo Chuan Tong
My vision: Personalized vaccines
Eric Wilhelm
Putting DIY projects online
Robert Wood
Building robotic flies
Ronggui Yang
Efficient electricity from waste heat
