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MIT Technology Review’s New Issue Reveals Annual 10 Breakthrough Technologies

CAMBRIDGE, MA – April 23, 2013: Today, MIT Technology Review releases its 2013 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies (formerly the TR10). Our definition of a breakthrough is simple: an advance that gives people powerful new ways to use technology. As a whole, we intend this annual list not only to tell you which technologies you need to know about, but also to celebrate the creativity that produced them.

Jason Pontin, publisher and editor in chief, states: “Every year we pick the 10 technologies we think most likely to change the world. We are interested in how technologies can solve really hard problems, whose solution will expand human possibilities. These technologies are an expression of our preferences and emphases, and they grow out of our reporting over the previous year. This is the stuff we like.”

The May/June issue of MIT Technology Review will be available on newsstands worldwide May 7 and online at technologyreview.com on April 23.

2013 10 Breakthrough Technologies:

Smart Watches	Pebble Sony Motorola MetaWatch		Temporary Social Media	Snapchat Gryphn Burn Note Wickr
Additive Manufacturing	GE Aviation EADS United Technologies Pratt & Whitney		Baxter: The Blue-Collar Robot (Industrial Robotics)	Rethink Robotics Universal Robotics Redwood Robotics Julie Shah, MIT
Supergrids	ABB Siemens EPRI General Atomics		Big Data from Cheap Phones	Caroline Buckee, Harvard University William Hoffman, World Economic Forum Alex Pentland, MIT Andy Tatem, University of Southampton
Prenatal DNA Sequencing	Illumina Verinata Stanford University Jay Shendure, University of Washington		Deep Learning	Google Microsoft IBM Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto
Memory Implants	Theodore Berger, USC Sam Deadwyler, Wake Forest Greg Gerhardt, University of Kentucky DARPA		UIltra-Efficient Solar Power	Harry Atwater, CalTech Albert Polman, AMOLF Eli Yablonovitch, UC Berkeley Dow Chemical

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