WSJ: The 2005 Innovation Awards show there's a lot of innovating going on out there.
Gold Winner: 454 Life Sciences, U.S. (Low-cost gene sequencing)
Silver Winner: Ecology Coatings, U.S. (Environmentally friendly coatings)
Bronze Winner: Alien Technology, U.S. (Manufacturing process that reduces cost of RFID tags)
Honorable Mention: MIT/Environment and Public Health Organization, U.S. (Inexpensive water-filtration system)
"Third-world challenges in water, food, shelter, and basic medical care are much more important than innovations in first-world entertainment." Robert Drost, a scientist at Sun Microsystems.
Podcast: How the judges chose.
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