More Than Just Cool Gadgets

摘要

The Tech Museum in San Jose, California, has an award program for gadgets-gadgets that use technology to improve people's lives. (The people who run the museum may not refer to these solutions as gadgets, but it seems like a good description). For example, how about a gadget that gives people access to portable lights by incorporating simple solar panels into clothing and other textiles? Sometimes the solution isn't the gadget itself, but a way to distribute the technology. For example, another award went to a company that deployed technology for small-scale hydroelectric generation in remote areas. A key component of this particular project was that the technology could be installed and maintained by local workers.