3Shape TRIOS® Wins Prestigious Technology Award

3Shape TRIOS® achieves first-place in Denmark's 2011 Engineer's Product Award competing against prominent tech-leading companies in a region highly recognized for its wide-spread technology excellence.

Copenhagen, Denmark - November 8, 2011 - 3Shape TRIOS®, a branch of the 3Shape Corporation and the maker of TRIOS® intra-oral scanning technologies for digital impression-taking solutions, has been named as a winner of the Engineers Product Award 2011. The award was presented to members of the 3Shape TRIOS® engineering staff at the Danish Design Center in Copenhagen on October 13^th, 2011. The company's TRIOS® solution, which includes a hand-held scanner, operator's control cart, and intuitive software, was selected as this year's winner in the health, medico, and food category.

About the Engineer's Product Award

Denmark's worldwide high-standing within technology makes the country's most prominent technology award a special challenge that involves formidable competitors. The Engineer's Product Award is presented annually by the Danish trade journal "Ingeniøren" (The Engineer) and goes to products in various categories that excel in their technology, design and business-impact. The award traditionally alternates its focus on different engineering aspects, and this year Product Design was spotlighted as its central theme. 

Jury praises TRIOS® for its remarkable technology

As awards for each category were presented on stage, jury members voiced their evaluations and emphasized the specific qualities that determined their first-place choices. This is what they said about TRIOS® :

"Shorter visits to the dentist and better results. These are things that will matter to many people. Here we have a handheld intra-oral scanner that optimizes both time and examination results. The scanner contains super-advanced technology. It performs optical 3D scanning of teeth in real-time, omitting the need for traditional silicon impressions. The challenge solved by 3Shape [of providing spray-free intra-oral scanning] is notoriously difficult because light penetrates the semitransparent tissue. The product compensates by applying innovative algorithms. Impressive!"