This year, 64 products were nominated for PLASA Awards for Innovation. The judging panel - audio consultants Roland Hemming and Richard Northwood, lighting designers Alastair Grant and Durham Marenghi, staging consultant Charlie Kail, theatre consultant Andy Hayles and PLASA's technical resources manager Ron Bonner - chaired by L&SI technical editor James Eade, were given the task of whittling them down to just eight . . .