2016 Edison Award Winners

One of the world's highest scientific achievements would be an Edison Award. No, it's not a science fair project, this is a global contest for new scientific inventions. As the website says "Being recognized with an Edison Award™ is one of the highest accolades a company can receive in the name of innovation and business success."

There are tons of different categories, each with Gold, Silver and Bronze awards. Here are some of the Gold winners.

• Cyber Safety: Project Ares gives online security teams an opportunity to test out what they can do in a realistic gaming platform that gives them real-world problems. 
• Financial Solutions: A handheld device called Clover Mobile won this award. It can securely do any method of payment anywhere with a mobile device.
• Food Manufacturing: 3M™ Condensation Management Film can be applied to any surface to help speed up the evaporation process with its microscopic capillary channels. Therefore making the sanitation much easier.
• Agriculture: The Vegetable Factory is the worlds very first indoor garden environment that can be built basically anywhere. Producing nearly 30,000 heads of lettuce a day this factory could help feed future generations.
• Space Exploration: Given to NASA for their space probe New Horizons  that traveled 3 billion miles and reached Pluto on July 14, 2015. This provided super cool information that was previously unavailable. 
• Athletics: The worlds smallest flotation aid, Kingii, can keep swimmers safe and comfortable with its emergency wristband that shoots out a balloon and pulls you to the water surface.
• Entertainment: Sphero's BB-8 app-enabled Droid won this award. This star wars toy will respond differently to your commands and is controlled through a smartphone app.
• Personal Technology: A small device called goTenna can pair to your smartphone and allow you to send and receive text messages even when you don't have service.
• Food and Beverage: The Farmers Fridge is a vending machine that provides handmade salads and snacks at an automated vending kiosk.
• Sustainable Solutions: Every year there is a massive waste in seafood production. To prevent this SmartCatch has created a monitor that helps fishermen catch the fish they want and avoid the fish they don't want.

The list goes on and on. As you can see, there are many incredible new innovations out there as the world becomes increasingly more mechanical. Soon the world will be operated by machines that will benefit mankind.