35 Innovators Under 35
Some members of our latest list of young innovators from around the world have developed consumer Web services you might have used, such as Spotify or Dropbox. Others are making more fundamental breakthroughs that have yet to be commercialized, such as more efficient engines or improvements in optical communications. And a few are blazing trails in fields that didn’t exist before, like pop-up fabrication of tiny machines, or cameras that can see around corners. But all 35 of them have something significant in common: their work is likely to be influential for a very long time. We hope that these stories about them surprise and inspire you. —The Editors
2012 TR35 Winners
Rana el Kaliouby
Teaching devices to tell a frown from a smile
Saikat Guha
Letting advertisers send targeted pitches to your mobile phone without ever seeing your personal information
Chris Harrison
Liberating us from the touch screen by turning skin and objects into input devices
John Hering
Securing our smartphones from spyware and rogue apps, with a little help from the crowds
Drew Houston
Hiding all the complexities of remote file storage behind a small blue box
Ren Ng
By tracking the direction of light, a camera takes pictures that can be refocused on different objects in a scene
Hossein Rahnama
Mobile apps that tell you what you need to know before you have to ask
Leila Takayama
Applying the tools of social science to make robots easier to live and work with
Eben Upton
His ultracheap computer is perfect for tinkering
Andreas Velten
Spotting tiny problems with help from an ultrafast camera
