Curry Stone 2008 Finalist, Shawn Frayne_Humdinger, 2007_(Source: Google Tech Talk)

The Curry Stone Design Prize is awarded by the Curry Stone Foundation to an individual or group who, in response to a particular need in an area of: clean water, clean air, clean food, shelter, community health, and peace, have developed a specific design solution that has the potential to create beneficial change and vital community. Like the MacArthur Award, this prize is "no strings attached." The recipient of the award will be announced each September at the Louisville IdeaFestival.

Shawn Frayne, inventor of the Windbelt, the worlds first non-turbine wind-powered generator. The technology, which is light enough to hold in your hand, has enormous potential to help people in poor communities power lamps, run small vaccine refrigerators and charge cell phones for pennies a day. Frayne was inspired to create the Windbelt after a visit to a village in Haiti where residents rely on costly kerosene and diesel for lack of an electrical grid.

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