R&D 100 Award!

En dan nu het laatste nieuws: Danko heeft met zijn kabeluitvinding de R&D 100 Award gewonnen! Deze awards worden uitgereikt aan de honderd beste uitvindingen van het jaar door R&D Magazine. Zoals het magazine het zelf zegt waarderen ze met de prijs de honderd uitvindingen die technologisch gezien het belangrijkst zijn, en het is een prestigieuze prijs om te winnen!

Zelf weten we het leuke nieuws al een week, maar we mochten nog niks zeggen totdat het vandaag officieel bekend werd gemaakt. In oktober volgt het officiële gedeelte, want dan is er een gala diner in SeaWorld in Orlando in Florida. We hebben dus weer een reisje in het vooruitzicht!

Er stond deze week ook al een artikel in het tijdschrift van de Cryogenic Society waarin ze over Danko en iemand anders zeggen dat zij met hun werk supergeleiding in een nieuw tijdperk gebracht hebben, en nog weer een ander tijdschrift is ook een artikel over Danko’s kabel aan het schrijven.
Met al die publiciteit was het dus wel een goed moment voor Danko om (in ieder geval op papier) zijn eigen bedrijf te beginnen, en zo is daar nu Advanced Conductor Technologies!



2011 R&D 100 AWARDS ANNOUNCED
Experts, editors pick top high technology innovations of the year

ROCKAWAY, N.J. – The editors of R&D Magazine have announced the winners of the 49th Annual R&D 100 Awards, which salute the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year. A full list of this year’s winners is available at www.rdmag.com.

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. For industry leaders, government labs, and academic institutions, the awards can be vital for gauging their efforts at commercialization of emerging technologies. And in winning an R&D 100 Award, developers often find the push their product needs to find success in the marketplace.

“During the recent economic downturn, industry, academia, and government labs continued to innovate. The editors were impressed with the strong field of candidates for this year’s R&D 100 Awards. The number of entries exceeded that of recent years,” said Rita Peters, editorial director of R&D Magazine.

The winners represent a cross-section of industry, academia, private research firms, and government labs. Winning technologies are used in medical, industrial, research, consumer, and manufacturing applications.

Since 1963, 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 ).

Winners of the R&D 100 Awards are selected by an independent judging panel and the editors of R&D Magazine. 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.

Winners will be recognized at the R&D 100 Awards Banquet on Oct. 13, 2011, in Orlando, Fla. A list of winning innovations is 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 1, 2011.

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 publication of Advantage Business Media (www.advantagebusinessmedia.com).