Sunday, December 20, 2009

Finalists Selected for the 2009 Edison Best New Product Awards

Prestigious Awards Recognize Excellence in New Product Development, Marketing and Innovation

Chicago -- On this day in 1847, Thomas Edison was born. In account and anniversary of America's greatest artist and innovator, the finalists for the celebrated 2009 Edison Best New Product Awards™ are accepting apparent today. The awards are a allotment of the a lot of aristocratic accolades anniversary arete in new artefact development, marketing, and innovation. Strategic accomplishing ally for the 2009 awards affairs cover the Thomas Edison Papers at Rutgers University, the Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG) and The MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB).    

The Edison Best New Product Awards, sponsored this year by Google, The Nielsen Company and Steelcase, focus on new articles and casework that excel in exchange innovation, exchange success, abstruse innovation, bazaar anatomy innovation, and civic impact. These belief adjust with Edison's own addition best practices, alleged the Five Competencies of Innovation. MENG associates civic casting their ballots for entries they accounted aces of accepting affiliated to the Edison name.

I can't anticipate of a bigger way to admit Thomas Edison's altogether than to advertise the finalists for the 2009 Edison Best New Product Awards I'm aflame to see such top ability entries this year. The Edison Awards Steering Committee had some acute debates in selecting which nominations would accomplish the ballot. "I can't anticipate of a bigger way to admit Thomas Edison's altogether than to advertise the finalists for the 2009 Edison Best New Product Awards," declared Sarah Miller Caldicott, abundant grandniece of Thomas Edison and co-author of Innovate Like Edison. "I'm aflame to see such top ability entries this year. The Edison Awards Steering Committee had some acute debates in selecting which nominations would accomplish the ballot." Caldicott is aswell Chairperson of the Edison Awards Steering Committee.

Awards will be appear in 10 categories, including: Consumer Packaged Goods, Science & Medical, Lifestyle & Social Impact, Energy & Sustainability, Technology, Industrial Design, Living & Working Environments, Media & Visual Communications, Transportation, and Electronics & Computers. Finalists include:

Science and Medical
 

    Insight High Throughput Experimentation Platform, from a accessory of Nuvo Research, Inc. Omnipod Insulin Management System, from Insulet Corp. 23AndMe Personal Genome Service, from 23AndMe i-LIMB Hand, from Touch Bionics
    Electronics and Computers
     
      Google G1 Android Phone, from T-Mobile and Google Apple iPhone, from Apple
      Energy and Sustainability
       
        Bixi - Montreal's Public Bike System Essentials Cleaner from Arm & Hammer Paradigm Earth Study 360, from Paradigm Digital Subsurface Asset Management
        Technology
         
          EssenceWise casting tracking system, from Wise Window, Inc. Realsight Quantitative Anthropology video tracking system, from Realsight Speedo LZR Racer, from Speedo WiiFit, from Nintendo
          Transportation
           
            Trek Madone 5.2, from Trek Bicycle Corporation WorldWide Telescope, from Microsoft Verdier Solar Powered Eco-Camper, from Verdier
            Industrial Design
             
              Macbook Air, from Apple
              Lifestyle and Social Impact
               
                Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign Healthiest Companies in America, from Unicom Marketing Mint.com The Apple App Store, from Apple
                Living and Working Environments
                 
                  Rio Salado College in Tempe, Arizona
                  Media and Communications
                   
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