Cleantech Recylcer EcoATM Among Winners of San Diego’s “Most Innovative Products” Awards

accept the exchange offer.) EcoATM, which has been forming partnerships with consumer electronics manufacturers and retailers, estimates that 1 billion used phones are languishing in closets and drawers—at a total value that could be as much as $12.2 billion.

Connect announced ecoATM’s award at a luncheon ceremony today, along with winners in seven other categories of the group’s 22nd annual “MIP” Most Innovative Products awards. The organization previously named the unmanned Predator military surveillance aircraft developed by San Diego-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems as the recipient of this year’s William W. Otterson Award. The winners are:

—Hardware and General Technology: Cymer for the XLR 600ix, the latest version of the specialized laser maker’s cabinet-sized deep ultraviolet light sources, which are part of the photolithography process used by the semiconductor industry to create integrated circuit patterns on silicon wafers. Cymer says its XLR 600ix enables 32 nanometer double patterning, and beyond.

—Life Science-Medical Diagnostics and Research Tools: Naviscan for its Stereo Navigator Breast Biopsy Accessory. The medical diagnostics company specializes in PET scanner technology that includes advanced photonics and image processing to provide high-resolution images of abnormal tissue in breasts and small body parts.

—Life Science-Medical Products: SynergEyes for ClearKone. The Carlsbad, CA, startup founded in 2001 develops hybrid contact lenses that combine the superior visual acuity of a rigid gas permeable lens with the comfort of a soft contact lens.

—Software: Verance Corp. for Cinavia. Verance specializes in proprietary technologies and software designed to enhance media content and protect copyrighted material through digital “watermarks” for recorded music, film, and television content. Its Cinavia software was developed for Blu-ray formatted devices.

—Communications & IT: Nextivity for Cel-Fi. Nextivity specializes in self-configuring, environmentally aware technology to optimize wireless 3G transmissions and reception. Its Cel-Fi product is intended to “light up” the interior of a house with significantly enhanced signal levels.

—Aerospace and Security Technologies: Intevac Photonics for Night Port. A subsidiary of Santa Clara, CA-based Intevac, Intevac Photonics specializes in extreme low-light imaging technologies, including cameras, systems, and sensors for both military and commercial customers.

—Action and Sport Technologies: Neptunic Technologies for its Neptech mesh protective material used to make the company’s Sharksuits for scuba divers.

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Author: Bruce V. Bigelow

In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here. Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.