Editor’s Page
Pittcon® 2014 Editors’ Awards Acknowledge Innovations in Scientific Instrumentation
by Marian Nardozzi P
ittcon®, the world’s largest annual confer- ence and exposition for laboratory science, is the premier venue for innovations, and
the Pittcon Editors’ Awards are all about reward- ing those types of advances.
For a product to be considered for this prestigious award, the requirements are that it is being dis- played for the first time at a Pittcon exposition and it must be a functioning instrument. Typically, win- ning products feature innovations in technology or industrial design or may enable new analytical applications.
This year, the dynamic exposition floor offered instruments and services from 935 exhibiting com- panies representing more than 32 countries. From a display of thousands of products, attending media representatives identified 19 different instruments and submitted their votes to a dedicated core of journalists who then selected winners for Gold, Silver, and Bronze.
Gold Award: DLP® NIRscan™
evaluation module After an intense deliberation, Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX;
www.ti.com), a new exhibitor at Pittcon, captured the Gold with its DLP® NIRscan™ evaluation module (EVM), based on the company’s DLP4500NIR polychromator, the principle of which has already been widely used in modern video projection meth- ods (see Figure 1).
Figure 1 – Mike J. Walker (right), Business Development Manager, Texas Instruments, accepting the award from Dr. Robert Stevenson, Editor, American Laboratory.
our belief that DLP technology will enable spectroscopy equipment de- signers to create truly mobile and accurate NIR spectrometers at notably lower costs.”
“This was our first year at Pittcon, and we immediately realized great value from being a part of the show—top leads and contacts, and excellent insights,” said Mariquita Gordon, Manager of DLP Embedded Products at Texas Instruments. She added, “Winning this year’s Gold Editors’ Award for our DLP NIRscan evaluation module is an honor. To have such recognition from the distinguished industry experts solidifies
The DLP NIRscan evaluation module is a brand new product, and is the first-ever spectroscopy development platform based on award-winning DLP technology. The DLP NIRscan is a complete development platform to design a high-performance, affordable, near-infrared (NIR) spec- trometer. Containing everything a designer needs to start developing a DLP-based spectrometer right out of the box, the EVM features the latest DLP chipset, which is the first optimized for use with NIR light.
AMERICAN LABORATORY • 4 • MAY 2014
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