Computer & electronics hardware
Roopam Sharma
Manovue by Roopam Sharma is meant to replace the braille language and the cane and will open up the smartphone market to the visually impaired.
Global
Qing Cao
His inventions are helping IBM in its decade-plus quest to replace silicon transistors with more efficient carbon nanotubes.
Latin America
Fernando Mier Hicks
His laboratory specifically designed to make small satellites levitate demonstrates how they will behave in outer space
Latin America
Katia Canepa
Combining beauty products with electronics to create wearables that give users "superpowers
Global
Alex Hegyi
A new type of camera could let smartphones find counterfeit drugs or spot the ripest peach.