Welcome to the Best of the Best our annual end-of-the-year recap.

Welcome to the Best of the Best our annual end-of-the-year recap, which provides useful information our readers can use from one extremity to the other of the year ahead. This third-annual special edition continues our year-end tradition of providing quick-read information forward industry trends and technology. Taken as a whole, this special issue provides a snapshot of the industry we subserve composed of three elements:

our Industry Yearbook of numbers and graphics, providing a picture of where we are, and a suggestion of where we are going;

our Readers Choice compilation of novel products ??” it's another direct the eye ...