Holase Inc. of Newmarket won the won the New Hampshire High Technology Council’s Product of the Year award Tuesday night with its Ultra Portable Traffic Management System, a system of portable traffic lights with all sorts of cool wireless control options that can be collapsed into a duffel bag, designed to make work zones and accident scenes safer than just using flares of those reflecting warning triangles.

The system was chosen by an audience vote in New Hampshire’s high-tech product lineup for “innovation, performance, functionality, value, uniqueness and ties to the Granite State.”

As the NHHTC has done in the past, it got named a panel of judges to choose four finalists, then had the companies give seven-minute pitches to the audience at its annual dinner, after which the audience members voted. It’s an interesting hybrid approach.

The 2006 winner was Nanocomp Technologies‘ material made from woven carbon nanotubes. The 2007 winner Ultravisions’ UltraSensor, a motion detector that uses ultra-wideband (UWB) technology. The 2008 winner was Insight Technology’s night vision goggles

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