Thursday, October 25, 2007

N.H. High Tech Council narrows 'product of the year' field

The finalists for the New Hampshire High Technology Council's 2007 Product of the Year competition range from motion detectors to plasma slicers.

Participants will be judged by a panel of New Hampshire technology industry veterans, including Dick Morley, an investor in various companies and inventor of the Programmable Logic Controller; Bob McCray, an angel investor in more than 35 companies in the area; and Charles Hutchinson, founder of Lebanon, N.H.-based GlycoFi Inc. and former dean of engineering at Dartmouth University.

The finalists are:

• The e-100 broadband service optimization platform from Merrimack's Ellacoya Networks Inc.
• Rapid Data Management System, which allows for the rapid collection and analysis of data in disconnected, disaster-stricken environments, from Portsmouth's Global Relief Technologies LLC.
• The portable Powermax30 plasma arc cutting system from Hypertherm Inc. of Hanover.
• A real-time head-impact telemetry system for measuring the biomechanical causes of mild traumatic brain injuries from Simbex LLC in Lebanon.
• UltraVision Security Systems Inc. of Auburn's UltraSensor security motion detector.

The winner will be determined based on judges' votes as well as audience votes at a Nov. 13 event at the Radisson Center of New Hampshire in Manchester.