Call for Entries
Build a better mousetrap....
Or semiconductor,
Or gene expression system,
Or software program,
Or car engine,
Or polymer,
Or consumer product,
Or bridge material,
Or security system,
Or chemical processing system,
Or fertilizer,
Or air quality detector,
But you get the idea.
If your new product or process does something better than the rest, it may
deserve an R&D 100 award.
The R&D 100s have been honoring the world's greatest inventions each year
since 1963.
Now is the time to prepare your entries for the 37th Annual R&D 100 Awards,
celebrating the year's most innovative new products and processes.
Called "The Oscars of Innovation", the R&D 100 Awards honor the inventors and
the products poised to make the greatest impact in our future.
But you'll never know if your innovation could win unless you enter the
competition.
Entering the R&D 100 Awards is simple.
Just contact R&D Magazine for more information or visit our website at
www.rdmag.com to download an entry form.
Your product might join the ranks of past winners such as:
1963 Polacolor color film
1964 Teflon coated aluminum cookware
1965 Flashcube
Rectangular color TV (replaced round picture tubes)
1966 Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer
1967 Ink-jet printer
1968 Color copier
All channel TV tuner
Liquid Crystal Displays
"Big-screen TV" (rear-projection TV sets)
"Ultrasound" machine
1969 VCR Optical character reader (allows handwritten documents to be
electronically recorded)
1970 Gem quality synthetic diamonds
1971 Digital watch
Music Synthesizer (digital computer organ)
Drug Screen (on-the-spot drug testing)
1974 Cromalin color proofing (state of the industry for artistic film
production) Color Design Console (CAD)
1975 Fax machine
1976 Spray-on non-toxic oven cleaner
1977 Anti-lock brakes
Roundup herbicide
Solar collector
1979 Magnetic stripe credit cards
RAM - random access memory
1980 Cartridge disc drive
Digital Audio Tape (a music industry standard)
1982 Gasoline additive "techron" (reduces engine knock)
1983 Kodak disc camera
Analog to digital circuit
Silicon integrated circuit
Publication design and page makeup system (forerunner to Pagemaker)
1984 Kodak VR 1000 film
256-k bit CMOS RAM
1985 FTIR Spectrometry
1986 AT&T touch-sensitive screen
1990 Handwriter data entry system (used by UPS)
1991 Kodak photo cd
1992 Nicoderm anti-smoking patch
1993 Taxol anti-cancer drug
Oatrim fat substitute
1996 Chemical lab-on-a-chip (does on-the-spot blood tests)
Fruitrim fat replacer
1998 Micro-Thermal Analyzer
Toyota hybrid system - gasoline/electric engine
Deadline for entries is March 1, 1999
Go to www.rdmag.com for complete information on the awards process.
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