The winners of The Wall Street Journal's 2004 Technology Innovation Awards competition have been announced. Innovators world-wide were considered.
1) The Gold award went to Sun Microsystems Inc of California for a wireless approach to chip design.
2) The Silver award went to Given Imaging Ltd of Yoqneam, Israel, for 'PillCam', a tiny camera that patients swallow so that doctors can see their digestive tract.
3) The Bronze award went to InSightec Image Guided Treatment Ltd. of Tirat Carmel, Israel, for 'ExAblate 2000', a nonsurgical way to destroy tumors by focusing ultrasound waves on them.
This is a significant achievement for Israel. >From a world-wide search, Israel took two of the top three places.
