Scallop Imaging Digital Window™ D7-180 Camera Honored as Museum of Science Invented Here! Finalist
Boston, November 29, 2010 – Scallop Imaging, the leader in high resolution, digital video camera technology, today announced its Digital Window™ D7-180 security camera is a Finalist for the Invented Here! program at the Museum of Science, Boston. Celebrating New England’s breakthrough inventions and inventors, Invented Here! honors the area’s newest and most innovative technologies. By celebrating these innovators, their inventions, and the stories behind them, the program advances the Museum’s mission of transforming the nation’s relationship with science and technology.
“New England has a rich history of innovation and invention, and encompasses a wide variety of entrepreneurs who continue to develop extraordinary products and services,” said Peter Jones, CEO of Scallop Imaging. “By highlighting some of the area’s more recent inventions, the Museum of Science is educating its patrons about breakthrough inventions, and how science and technology can positively affect our lives and work. We’re honored to be included among the Invented Here! finalists, and to be recognized for contributing to the tradition of local innovation, with our Digital Window cameras.”
The Digital Window D7-180 IP video camera uses a seven megapixel staring array to deliver panoramic video across a high resolution, 180 degree field of view, without fisheye distortion. A single Digital Window camera can replace several traditional cameras, and stream and record in much high resolution, at a comparable price per camera. Scallop Imaging also offers the Digital Window A7-180 camera, for analog video infrastructures. Digital Window cameras are based on technology patented by Tenebraex in 2007, titled “Method of Creating a Virtual Window.” The D7-180 camera has also been honored with an ASIS Accolades 2009 security products award, and a Create the Future 2010 product design award.
About the Museum of Science, Boston
The Museum takes a hands-on approach to science, engineering and technology, attracting about 1.5 million visitors a year via its programs and 700 interactive exhibits. Founded in 1830, the Museum was first to embrace all the sciences under one roof. Highlights include the Thomson Theater of Electricity, Charles Hayden Planetarium, Mugar Omni Theater, Gordon Current Science & Technology Center, 3-D Digital Cinema and Butterfly Garden. Reaching 25,000 teens a year worldwide via the Intel Computer Clubhouse Network, the Museum also leads a 10-year, $41 million National Science Foundation-funded Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network of science museums. The Museum’s “Science Is an Activity” exhibit plan has been awarded many NSF grants and influenced science centers worldwide. Its National Center for Technological Literacy® aims to enhance knowledge of engineering and technology for people of all ages and inspire the next generation of engineers, inventors, and scientists. The Museum is ranked #3 by Parents Magazine in its list of the country’s “Ten Best Science Centers, Visit http://www.mos.org.
About Scallop Imaging, Inc.
Scallop Imaging is a division of Tenebraex Corporation, which designs and manufactures innovative optical products that solve real world problems. Scallop Imaging provides businesses, consumers, and defense and homeland security agencies with a range of high performance camera technologies that dramatically improve visual capabilities. The company is based in Boston.
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