SXSW Innovation Awards 2016: Your guide to the big winners


  • TECH
  • Saturday, 19 Mar 2016

Free and easy: Doppler Labs offers wireless earbuds with sound control, equalisation and a connected smartphone app

Check out the 13 main category winners at SXSW Interactive 2016, from slick, stackable inner city micro homes and smart wireless earbuds to two documentaries and drug-free pain relief technology.

Health, Med & Biotech

Deskgen – genome editing software suite with curation tools, DNA search, and machine-learning

Innovation in Connecting People
Don's Voice – documentary showing how Not Impossible Labs helped an ALS sufferer speak again

Innovative 3-DIY

Wevolver – open source hardware movement allowing makers to share complex, solutions-oriented 3D printing plans

Music & Audio Innovation
Here Active Listening System – wireless earbuds with sound control, equalisation, and a connected smartphone app

New Economy
ShareTheMeal – the UN World Food Programme's smartphone app that triggers food donations

Privacy & Security
Peeple – smart camera built for front door security peepholes, connecting to other devices on a WiFi network

Responsive Design
Breakthrough – interactive website for National Geographic's series on high-tech advancements in medicine, energy, and water use

SciFi No Longer

Lily Camera – waterproof flying drone camera with autonomous tracking system

Smart Cities
Kasita – 270ft smart micro homes, stackable and (relatively) portable, fully equipped and designed for inner city living

Student Innovation
Plant-like Robot – magnetic, barbed robot that can attach to humans, animals and artifacts, collecting environmental and climate data

Visual Media Experience
The Fallen of World War II – interactive data visualisation documentary examining the human cost of the second World War

VR & AR
Mill Stitch – live action, cinema-grade production tool for 360° film

Wearable Tech
Quell Wearable Pain Relief Technology – stimulates sensory nerves to stop pain signals reaching the brain. —  AFP Relaxnews

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