The Wall Street Journal recently recognized their favorite technological innovations of 2005. The awards were divided up into two overlapping categories, the top innovation in each category considered (i.e., Environment, Internet, etc.), and the best three out of the group.

Gold Medal Winner: The Bio-Tech Medical award was given to 454 Life Sciences, for the development of a chip that can decode the human genome 100 times faster then previous methods, thus making it viable for the analysis of genetic conditions in medical diagnosis.

Silver Medal Winner: The Materials award was given to Ecology Coatings for creating an environmentally friendly easily applied finish for preparing products like plastic and paper that can not withstand high temperatures.

bronze Medal Winner: The Semiconductor award was given to Alien Technologies for a low-cost method of quickly manufacturing RFID tags.

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