The
editors of R&D Magazine have announced the winners of the 50th
Annual R&D 100 Awards, which salute the 100 most technologically
significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year. View the full list of 2012 winners.
The
innovations represent a broad spectrum of new materials, instruments, consumer
products, environmental and energy technologies, imaging systems,
communications, and electronic instrumentation, as well as process technologies
and safety systems.The winning technologies were developed by a cross-section
of industry, academia, private research firms, and government labs.
“As the
R&D 100 Awards marks 50 years of celebrating innovation, the editors are
pleased to present this year’s winners as prime examples of advances in science
and technology,” said Rita Peters, editorial director of R&D Magazine. “Despite
a slow economy, the competition experienced a near record number of entries
from around the world. This demonstrates that researchers are committed to
innovate.”
The
R&D 100 Awards have long been a benchmark of excellence for industry
sectors as diverse as telecommunications, high-energy physics, software,
manufacturing, and biotechnology. Winners in this year’s competition include
new methods for thin film deposition, nanoparticle-based materials, advances
for laser systems, solar reflective roofing shingles, a light field camera, and
electronic focusing reading glasses.
Over the
last 50 years, the R&D 100 Awards have identified revolutionary
technologies newly introduced to the market. Many of these have become
household names, helping shape everyday life for many Americans. These include
the flashcube (1965), the automated teller machine (1973), the halogen lamp
(1974), the fax machine (1975), the liquid crystal display (1980), the Kodak
Photo CD (1991), the Nicoderm anti-smoking patch (1992), Taxol anticancer drug
(1993), lab on a chip (1996), and HDTV (1998).
An
independent judging panel and the editors of R&D Magazine select winners of the R&D 100 Awards.Recipients
will be recognized at the R&D 100 Awards Banquet on Nov. 1, 2012, in Orlando,
Fla. A list of winning innovations appears on the R&D 100 Awards website, www.rdmag.com. Additional information,
including registration for the Orlando event, will be available at that website
on July 2, 2012.
The publication
and its online portal serve research scientists, engineers, and other technical
staff members at high tech industrial companies and public and private
laboratories around the world.
View the 2012 R&D 100 Awards Winners
About
R&D Magazine
Since
its founding in 1959 as Industrial Research, R&D Magazine has
served research scientists, engineers and technical staff at laboratories
around the world, providing timely, informative news and useful technical
articles that broaden readers’ knowledge of the research and development
industry and improve the quality of their work. R&D Magazine is a
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