We just released our second business update on LRAD Corp. (LRAD-NASDAQ), a company developing and marketing acoustic hailing devices (AHD) that support the delivery and intelligibility of audio broadcasts over long ranges.

Last week in Boston, the NanoBusiness Commercialization Association (NanoBCA), a national nonprofit trade association for nanotechnology-enabled business, held a NanoBusiness conference where the association announced the "Top Nanotech Innovators of 2012," highlighting companies that create novel and potentially disruptive technologies in the nanotech sector. NanoBCA recognized 20 large corporations as well as 20 emerging enterprises. The Figure below highlights NanoBCA's view of the top nanotechnology innovators for 2012 and specifies the area(s) for which the company was recognized.    

Neonode Inc. (NEON-NASDAQ) announced this morning that Sony's latest eReader, the PRS-T2 (shown to the right), incorporates Neonode's breakthrough Multi Sense technology. Multi Sense is an enhanced optical 3D multi-touch technology that Neonode first debuted earlier this year at the Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. It was originally estimated that products incorporating Multi Sense would not reach the market until 2013, though the PRS-T2 eReader is now available for sale on Sony's website and from major retailers.