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- Watch CONNECT’s Most Innovative New Product Video Here, produced by Passage Productions -
The CONNECT.org Most Innovative New Product Awards 2008 features San Diego innovators highlighted in this video production. The opening sequence also features some of San Diego’s most successful entrepreneurs such as Craig Venter and Larry Smarr…
The following article was posted on the San Diego Metropolitan Daily Business Report and spotlighted the Connect.org event, with video production produced by Passage Productions.
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Daily Business Report
December 15, 2008
TECHNOLOGY
Connect has announced the winners of the 21st annual Most Innovative New Product Award, a competition that attracted more than 100 entries. The award went to winners in eight categories.
The 2008 MIP Award winners are:
• Action and Sport Technologies: Firewire Surfboards for Direct Drive. Direct Drive is a high-performance surfboard designed with non-traditional and more environmentally friendly materials, resulting in a lighter, stronger, and flexible surfboard with increased performance.
• Aerospace and Security Technologies: Avaak for Vue Personal Video Network and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems for Sky Warrior Block Zero Unmanned Aircraft System. Both products received equal votes from the judges, resulting in the first tie in the program’s 21-year history. Avaak created a wire-free video system that provides a convenient way for consumers to keep an eye on their families, homes, and businesses from virtually anywhere. Featuring a heavy-fuel engine for increased supportability in the field, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems’ UAS is a multi-mission aircraft for U.S. Army operations that provides long-endurance, persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, and tactical strike capability.
• Clean Technology: Reaction Design for Energico. The software enables virtual experimentation of low-emission design alternatives for power generation and transportation engines.
• Hardware and General Technology: Semtek Corp. for Cipher Module Cipher Module is a three-step security platform to address credit card fraud by providing a definitive set of security solutions at the point of sale.
• Life Science — Diagnostics and Research Tools: Silicon Kinetics for SKi Pro. Silicon Kinetics developed the world’s first 3D label-free platform for bimolecular interaction analysis in disease pathway research, biomarker discovery, drug discovery, drug and vaccine development and quality control in drug manufacturing.
• Life Science — Medical Products: Ablation Frontiers for Catheter Ablation System. The system delivers a safer, faster and more customized approach to the treatment of atrial fibrillation, an abnormal heart rhythm.
• Software & IT: Photometria for TAAZ.com. TAAZ.com brings state-of-the-art computer technology into fashion and beauty with a realistic virtual makeover site where visitors can try makeup and hair styles from the comfort of their homes.
• Wireless Communications: Mushroom Networks for PortaBella. PortaBella is the industry’s first one-sided wireless broadband bonding appliance delivering the fastest available mobile Internet connection for downloading and uploading media-rich data.
• The Bill Otterson Award, which recognizes technologies or products developed in San Diego that have demonstrated a positive impact on quality of life, was awarded to MedStation, a product developed in San Diego by Pyxis Corp., now a Cardinal Health company. MedStation is an automated medication dispensing system for hospitals and other health care facilities. It was introduced in 1989, revolutionizing the way nurses got drugs for patients. Pyxis MedStation automates the distribution, tracking, management and security of medications.
About CONNECT
CONNECT is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating and sustaining the growth of innovative technology and life science businesses in San Diego. Each year CONNECT delivers more than 300 programs and services that benefit more than 2,000 CEOs and companies.
CONNECT is widely regarded as the nation’s most successful regional program linking inventors and entrepreneurs with the resources they need for success. Its programs include: Springboard, Venture Round Table, Frontiers in Science and Technology, FrameWorks, CEO Strategy Forum and Connect with CONNECT; affiliate programs including The Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCAT), Tech Coast Angels (TCA), and MIT Enterprise Forum (MITEF); and its awards and recognition programs, Hall of Fame, and The Most Innovative Product (MIP) Awards. For further information, see www.connect.org.
- Watch CONNECT’s Most Innovative New Product Video Here, produced by Passage Productions -
- Watch CONNECT’s Most Innovative New Product Video Here, produced by Passage Productions -
The following is the San Diego Union Tribune article which spotlighted the CONNECT.org award show. Passage Productions, Southern California’s experts in live event video production and motion graphic media produced the presentation.
CONNECT HANDS OUT AWARDS FOR INNOVATION
STAFF WRITER
December 13, 2008
A high-tech surfboard and a computer-simulated cosmetic makeover were among the winners of Most Innovative New Product awards handed out yesterday by Connect, an organization promoting technology and life science firms in San Diego.
The annual tribute to entrepreneurs is better known for lauding products only engineers could love. Last year, Connect honored Cymer for its deep-ultraviolet lasers, which etch ever-finer microcircuit patterns on chips used in computers, wireless phones and electronic appliances everywhere. This year, San Diego’s Firewire Surfboards won the group’s first award for Sports and Action. The engineering and materials in the company’s Direct Drive board make it lighter, stronger and more environmentally friendly. Another consumer product, Web site TAAZ.com, won the Software & IT category. The system from Photometria lets users upload photos of themselves and then apply “realistic virtual makeovers” of makeup and hairstyles.
Other winners were:
Aerospace and Security Technologies – Vue Personal Video Network from Avaak and Sky Warrior Block Zero Unmanned Aircraft System from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems. Vue is a home monitor and security system. Block Zero is an unmanned military craft used for surveillance, reconnaissance and tactical strikes.
Clean Technology – Energico from Reaction Design, a software application for design of low-emission engines for power generators and vehicles.
Hardware and General Technology – Cipher Module from Semtek, a security platform to reduce credit card fraud at the point of sale.
Life Science Diagnostics and Research Tools – SKi Pro from Silicon Kinetics, a 3-D chip to analyze biomolecular interaction for drug and vaccine research.
Life Science Medical Products – Catheter Ablation System from Ablation Frontiers, a device to treat atrial fibrillation, an abnormal heart rhythm.
Wireless Communications – PortaBella from Mushroom Networks, a device that can make up to five connections to cellular data networks to create a single, high-speed broadband connection.
In addition to the innovation awards, Connect presented Pyxis, now a Cardinal Health company, the William W. Otterson Award, which recognizes a technology or product developed in San Diego that has made a significant positive impact on quality of life. Pyxis created MedStation, an automated medication dispensing system for hospitals and other health care facilities.
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Location: The Grand Del Mar Hotel, San Diego, California
The December 5th gala paid tribute to the Lincoln Club’s past chairmen as the club commemorated its quarter-century of accomplishments while continuing its efforts in making the San Diego economy stronger. As San Diego’s leader in live event video presentations, Passage Productions showcased 25 years of Lincoln Club events and milestones through a creative rollout of years, trends and world news.
The event was attended by past club chairmen, a position which has been held by Larry Richman, Duane Roth, Allan Royster, Mike Turk, Tom Sudberry and Bob Watkins.
About Lincoln Club:
The Lincoln Club of San Diego County is an influential organization of politically like-minded business and civic leaders throughout the country. Our mission is to advance leadership that shares our commitment to fiscally responsible public policy, the expansion of economic opportunity, and an enhanced quality of life throughout San Diego County.
The Lincoln Club of San Diego County identifies and supports candidates, elected officials, and policies at every level of government. We measure these leaders and issues based on our core philosophy of a fiscally responsible government. As an influential and respected political organization, The Lincoln Club provides its members exclusive access to business and government leaders.
About Passage Productions: Passage continues to lead the San Diego video production, professional presentation and corporate media industries, partnering with professionals and corporations to relay important messages through video and graphic animation. Based in San Diego, Passage has produced successful video programs for clients throughout the world.
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