Wireless Innovation Project winners announced

http://www.theworld.org/node/26216

The Vodafone Americas Foundation is a non-profit arm of the global mobile giant Vodafone. The Foundation recently ran a competition called the Wireless Innovation Project. It invited innovators to come forward with ideas on how new wireless technologies can solve problems around the world. More than 100 applicants sent in their ideas. Vodafone then chose three projects to fund. These are the winners:

ANTs
Active Networked Tags for Disaster Recovery Applications - Columbia University

A system that uses wireless devices to track and locate survivors trapped by fires and structural collapse. The system is based on energy harvesting tags using ultra low power communications.

CellScope
Bioengineering Department, University of California at Berkeley -- A conventional cell phone is transformed into a compact, high-resolution, handheld microscope with the capability of on-site disease diagnosis and wireless transmission of patient data to clinical centers for remote diagnosis & treatment.

CelloPhone
UCLA -- A lensfree imaging platform on a cellphone for disease detection and diagnostics using digital holograms of the cells or bacteria, that is capable of monitoring HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and various other diseases.