TED2010 Fellows Announced!

From the TED website:

Meet the TED2010 Fellows...The TED2010 Fellows will join the TED community in Long Beach for a Fellows pre-conference and for TED2010: "What the World Needs Now."

they include...

Mubarak Abdullahi (Nigeria/UK) - Aircraft engineer who, at 24, built a homemade helicopter out of old car and bike parts
Hugo Van Vuuren (South Africa/US) - Co-founder of Lebone, a social enterprise working on off-grid technologies and the promotion of dirt-powered batteries
Ndubuisi Ekekwe (Nigeria/US) - Scientist and founder of the African Institution of Technology, an organization seeking to establish integrated chip design and manufacturing facilities across the African continent