A challenging economic environment in 2008 brought out the best in several members of the electronics industry. And EDN’s annual Innovation Awards program has once again honored the most innovative technological advances as well as the designers behind those advances. This year, the judges—a team effort that involved EDN’s editorial staff and you, the readers of EDN and edn.com—faced a serious challenge to decide among closely matched and highly qualified entrants in 26 product and technology categories. In addition, we considered nominations for 2008’s Best Contributed Article and Innovator of the Year.

Read on to learn who took home top honors at this year’s awards ceremony, which took place March 30 in San Jose, CA. For more details on the winners and all of the finalists, as well as photos from the festivities, visit www.edn.com/innovation.