The 2006 NASA Tech Briefs (NTB) and Photonics Tech Briefs (PTB) Readers’ Choice Product of the Year Awards were presented recently by the editors of NTB and PTB at an awards dinner in New York City. The event honored the top three products of 2006 as chosen by each magazine’s readers. Also honored at the event were the Grand-Prize and First-Prize winners of the Emhart Teknologies “Create the Future” Design Contest.

Products of the Year

Each month, the editors choose a Product of the Month, the one new product that has the most practical value and technical merit for the greatest portion of each magazine’s readership. At the end of the year, NTB and PTB readers are asked to choose the products they feel were the most significant new introductions to the engineering community in 2006. The top three products from each magazine are honored as Product of the Year winners.

The 2006 Photonics Tech Briefs Product of the Year winners (from left): Victor Sapirstein, Chairman and CEO of Lambda Solutions; Domenico Assalone, Director and Site Manager Oriel Product Line, at Newport Corp.; Linda Bell, PTB Editorial Director; and Gary Pitre, Eastern Regional Sales Manager at Toshiba Imaging Systems Division.

The award was accepted by Pierre Tager, Group Product Manager, Acrobat 3D, in the Knowledge Worker Business Unit. “Adobe is proud to be honored with a 2006 Product of the Year award, as Acrobat 3D marked an important milestone in the company’s ongoing effort to deliver a first-class 3Dbased collaboration tool,” Tager said. “We believe Acrobat 3D is a revolutionary product for the manfacturing industry, and we’re extremely thankful to NASA Tech Briefs’ readers for their recognition of its strong value and the productivity gains it can bring to CAD, CAM an CAE users.”

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