I.D. Magazine's Annual Design Review has chronicled the best in design and its impact on our culture since 1954. Other winning innovators in this year's showcase, featured in the August issue, include Apple, HP, Nokia and Revlon.

"I'm proud to be recognized by I.D. Magazine for the second straight year," said Mr. Davison, a "serial inventor," according to the I.D. judges. "It's nice to be recognized when you're designing products of this caliber."

The simple yet highly functional Wrist Therapy Brace treats, protects and supports injured and afflicted wrists without limiting mobility. The versatile product can be used on either wrist and is microwaveable and freezable with an absorbent gel core that locks in cold or heat to ensure lasting thermal therapy.

According to the summary printed in I.D., "The judges unanimously loved the Wrist Brace." One judge proclaimed that the product was a "great idea," while another complimented the color and how easy it was to put on with only one hand.

The Wrist Therapy Brace, conceptualized by client Robert Huffman, is the second Davison-designed product to appear in I.D. It is licensed to Health Enterprises and sold in a national pharmacy chain under the store's private label and in many other stores under the Acu-Life brand.

"It's amazing," said Huffman. "I had no doubts in my mind it would get marketed, but I never thought I'd win an award."

In 2007, Davison's Jack 'N Stand received an honorable mention in the concept design category of I.D. Magazine's annual review competition. I.D. Magazine also recognized "Inventionland," Davison's creative workspace, as one of "40 Amazing-Looking Design Offices" in the January/February 2008 issue. Additionally, in 2006, Davison received two Industrial Design Excellence awards from the Industrial Designers Society of America and BusinessWeek magazine.

Davison is a new product development company that provides a variety of services to inventors, corporations and entrepreneurs. Products designed by Davison have sold in stores across the U.S., such as Target, Bed Bath & Beyond, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Sears, K-Mart, FAO Schwarz, JCPenney and Cabela's.

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This is the sixth industry award that Corning ClearCurve fiber has received since its introduction in 2007. Corning has previously won this award for technologies such as LEAF optical fiber, MetroCor optical fiber and Polarcor polarizing glass.

"We are honored to have ClearCurve fiber recognized in the industry as one of the most technologically significant products of the year," said Martin J. Curran, senior vice president and general manager, Corning Optical Fiber. "In the development of ClearCurve fiber, we had our customers' needs in mind. The main objective was to manufacture a fiber with vastly improved macrobend performance to allow carriers to design optical fiber into much more challenging installation environments. We believe this fiber technology will continue to open new application spaces to the bandwidth benefits of optical fiber."

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"We are honored to have ClearCurve fiber recognized in the industry as one of the most technologically significant products of the year," said Martin J. Curran, senior vice president and general manager, Corning Optical Fiber. "In the development of ClearCurve fiber, we had our customers' needs in mind. The main objective was to manufacture a fiber with vastly improved macrobend performance to allow carriers to design optical fiber into much more challenging installation environments. We believe this fiber technology will continue to open new application spaces to the bandwidth benefits of optical fiber."

The ClearCurve fiber solution is hundreds of times more bendable than standard single-mode fiber. Featuring Corning's breakthrough nanoStructures(TM) technology, ClearCurve optical fiber can be bent around very tight corners with virtually no signal loss while maintaining backward compatibility with the installed base of optical fiber. This fiber enables the construction of rugged drop cables for multi-dwelling unit installation that can be handled in the same way that copper communication cables are handled, such as pulling through wall studs and stapling to wood. For detailed Corning product information, visit www.corning.com/clearcurve.

About Corning Incorporated

Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics. Drawing on more than 150 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences. Our products include glass substrates for LCD televisions, computer monitors and laptops; ceramic substrates and filters for mobile emission control systems; optical fiber, cable, hardware & equipment for telecommunications networks; optical biosensors for drug discovery; and other advanced optics and specialty glass solutions for a number of industries including semiconductor, aerospace, defense, astronomy and metrology.

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"Over the last three decades, researchers and others have envisioned a time when we might be able to do something as simple, fast, and inexpensive as constructing our houses and buildings with PV-coated materials to provide the electricity the buildings would need," said R&D editor in chief Tim Studt. "That vision will soon be a reality thanks to this low cost solar printing process developed by HelioVolt and NREL."

"Thin film PV technology is already impacting the energy industry by significantly lowering the cost of generating electricity from the sun with the use of less materials," said NREL Director Dan Arvizu. "Public and private sector collaboration speeds up the time it takes to move these new technologies into the marketplace and we are pleased to share this national recognition with HelioVolt."

HelioVolt's FASST reactive transfer printing process drives cost advantages by manufacturing high-quality CIGS thin film products ten to one hundred times more rapidly than competitive methods. FASST can be combined with vacuum evaporation, ultrasonic spray, or ink-jet printing deposition processes like the one developed by NREL, allowing for industry-leading flexibility to achieve the lowest cost process. Confirmed through independent testing, FASST delivers solar cells exceeding 12 percent conversion efficiency in a record setting six minutes. These efficiencies place HelioVolt's CIGS devices among the highest performing solar thin film products on the market today. HelioVolt is using FASST to develop both conventional modules and next-generation building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) products for the global solar energy market. HelioVolt will employ FASST for commercial production for the first time in a factory that opened today in Austin, Texas.

About HelioVolt

HelioVolt Corporation was founded in 2001 in order to develop and market new technology for applying thin-film photovoltaic coatings to conventional construction materials. The company's proprietary FASST (R) process, based on semiconductor printing, was invented by HelioVolt founder Dr. Billy J. Stanbery, an eminent expert within the international PV community in the materials science of CIGS and related compound semiconductors. FASST (R) is a low-cost, flexible manufacturing process for CIGS synthesis and is protected by both fifteen issued US and foreign national patents and by numerous additional global patents pending. For additional information, visit www.heliovolt.com.

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