|
Innovative product finalists announced
(North County Times (Escondido, CA) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Sep. 30--Innovation can come from anywhere. For Solana Beach's American Wave Machines, it came from the Waimea River in Hawaii, where stationary waves periodically form, to the delight of local surfers.
After more than eight years of engineering, the company turned a curiosity of nature into an amusement park attraction: a real wave, ridable with surfboards. Called SurfStream, it's now in use in Taiwan and coming soon in other parts of the world, including the landlocked Midwest.
Such a mixture of inspiration and hard work is what Connect, the local entrepreneurship program, looks for each year with its Most Innovative New Products contest. American Wave Machines is one of 24 finalists Connect announced on Monday.
Of the 24 finalists in eight categories, 12 are North County companies. Along with the traditional categories in areas of high-tech and life sciences, two more have been added: action and sports technology, and aerospace technology.
The complete list of finalists follows:
Action and Sports Technologies
American Wave Machines for SurfStream (Solana Beach)
Firewire Surfboards for Direct Drive (San Diego)
Zoot Sports for Ultra Race Shoe (Vista)
Aerospace and Security Technologies
Avaak for Vue Personal Video Vetwork (San Diego)
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems for Sky Warrior Block Zero Unmanned Aircraft System (Rancho Bernardo)
Seacoast Science for SeaPort Mini GC (Carlsbad)
Clean Technology
Hadronex for Sewer Intelligence System (Escondido)
Networkcar for Networkfleet 3500 (San Diego)
Reaction Design for Energico (San Diego)
Hardware and General Technology
Entropic Communications for Channel Stacking Switch ICs (San Diego)
Gunnar Optiks for Gunnar Digital Eyewear (Carmel Valley)
Semtek Corp. for Cipher Module (Carmel Valley)
Life Sciences ---- Diagnostics and Research Tools
Histogen for BioNuesis (San Diego)
Invitrogen Corp. for StemPro BG01v platform hESC Kit (Carlsbad)
Silicon Kinetics for SKi Pro (San Diego)
Life Sciences ---- Medical Products
Ablation Frontiers for Catheter Ablation System (Carlsbad)
Cytori Therapeutics for Celution System (San Diego)
Vet-Stem for Vet-Stem Regenerative Cell for Small Animals (Poway)
Software and IT
InSilicoMed for Continuity (San Diego)
PacketVideo for MediaFusion (Carmel Valley)
Photometria for Taaz.com (San Diego)
Wireless Communications
Mushroom Networks for PortaBella (San Diego)
Pulse-LINK for CWave UWB Chipset (Carlsbad)
Staccato Communications for Ripcord (San Diego)
Winners will be announced Dec. 12 at the 21st annual MIP Awards Luncheon, at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines. More information is available by e-mail at nvandillen@connect.org or at http://www.connect.org.
To see more of the North County Times, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.nctimes.com.
Copyright (c) 2008, North County Times, Escondido, Calif.
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write to The Permissions Group Inc., 1247 Milwaukee Ave., Suite 303, Glenview, IL 60025, USA.
|
|
INDUSTRIES
Activate Email 
INDUSTRIES
