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Tech award winners quietly expect to make world a better, safer place

They tinker away in remote corners of the world to produce the ultimate change-the-world technology. Their innovations won’t land on the shelves of Fry’s Electronics but range from providing clean water to the poor to converting cell phones into microscopes for developing-world health-care workers.

The 10th annual Tech Museum Awards, held Saturday night at the Santa Clara Convention Center before an audience of 1,300, shifted the gaze of Silicon Valley from the latest shiny tech objects and hottest new chips to social entrepreneurs working to solve some of the world’s most vexing problems.

By John Boudreau

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