2007 Product of the Year and Design Contest Winners Honored

摘要

The 2007 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 2007 as chosen by each magazine's readers. Also honored at the event were the winners of the sixth annual Create the Future Design Contest, presented by SolidWorks Corp. 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 were asked to choose the products they feel were the most significant new introductions to the engineering community in 2007. The top three products from each magazine are honored as Product of the Year winners. Astro-Med of West Warwick, RI, took home the first NTB Product of the Year for its Dash 32HF multi-channel, high-frequency data acquisition recorder. Engineered to capture high-frequency data and transient signals, the unit records up to 32 channels to an internal hard drive at sample rates up to 500 kHz, and a bandwidth of 100 KHz per channel.