DIMA Innovative Digital Product Winners! By
Michael R. Tomkins, The Imaging Resource (Tuesday, February 13, 2001 - 17:46 EST)Only 17 products were selected for the prestigious DIMA Innovative Digital Product Awards at this year's PMA Conference and Tradeshow. Ingenuity, quality, and impact on the future of digital were the criteria used to select these lucky winners.
Photo Marketing Association and DIMA, the association's digital imaging group, announced 17 Innovative Digital Product Award winners for the 2001 PMA Convention and Tradeshow. Winners were selected by a group of digital imaging editors and writers recruited from digital imaging publications throughout the industry. Criteria to win an Innovative Digital Product Award included innovative use of new technologies and/or applications in a way that makes the products either unique or the first of their kind. Companies and products honored for their innovative digital products are as follows:
Adobe Systems Inc., San Jose, CA Adobe Photoshop Elements photo enhancement software
DXG Technology Corp., Taipei, Taiwan Color Wrist Camera
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY Kodak DCS PRO Back professional digital camera back
Epson America Inc., Long Beach, CA Stylus Pro 5500 professional inkjet printer
Gretag Imaging Inc., Holyoke, MA Photohub 208 inkjet workstation
Leaf America, Elmsford, NY C-Most 6.6 megapixel CMOS chip
JVC Company of America, Wayne, NJ GR-DVP3 Digital Video Camcorder
MGI Software, Richmond Hill, ON, Canada PhotoSuite Mobile Edition
Minds@Work, Irvine, CA Digital Wallet portable storage device
Minolta Corp., Ramsey, NJ Dimage 5 5.2-megapixel camera
Nikon Inc., Melville, NY Super CoolScan 8000 film scanner
Nikon Inc., Melville, NY Nikon D1x professional digital camera
Nixvue Systems Pte Ltd., Singapore Nixvue Digital Album storage and printing system
Polaroid Corp., Wayland, MA PDC 640 Digital Modem Camera
Silicon Film Technologies Inc., Irvine, CA EFS-1 Digital camera insert
Vivitar Corp., Newbury Park, CA DC-1002 consumer web camera
Interactive International Inc., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Surroundphoto digital hardware for panoramic prints
