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UNITED
        STATES
SECURITIES
        AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
        D.C. 20549
FORM
        8-K
CURRENT
        REPORT
Pursuant
        to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of
        1934
Date
                  of Report (Date of earliest event reported)
December
                  8, 2005
FARO
                  Technologies, Inc.
(Exact
                  name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Florida
0-23081
59-3157093
(State
                  or other jurisdiction
of
                  incorporation)
(Commission
File
                  Number)
(I.R.S.
                  Employer
Identification
                  No.)
125
                  Technology Park, Lake Mary, Florida
32746
(Address
                  of principal executive offices)
(Zip
                  Code)
Registrant's
                  telephone number, including area code
(407)
                  333-9911
(Former
                  name or former address, if changed since last report.)
Check
                  the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to
                  simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant
                  under any
                  of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):
o
Written communications pursuant to Rule 425
                    under the
                    Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
o
Soliciting
                        material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17
                        CFR
                        240.14a-12)
o
Pre-commencement
                          communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange
                          Act (17 CFR
                          240.14d-2(b))
o
Pre-commencement
                          communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange
                          Act (17 CFR
                          240.13e-4(c))
ITEM
        1.01
Entry
        into a Material Definitive Agreement
On
        December 8, 2005, FARO Technologies, Inc. (the "Company") accelerated the
        vesting for 107,600 shares with an exercise price of $19.38. On December
        5,
        2005, the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company
        approved the acceleration of vesting for these stock options recently awarded
        to
        certain of its executive officers under the Company's 2004 Equity Incentive
        Plan, subject to them becoming "out-of-the-money" prior to December 31, 2005.
        The closing price on December 8, 2005 was $19.22 per share.
The
        purpose of the acceleration is to enable the Company to avoid recognizing
        compensation expense associated with these options in future periods in its
        consolidated statements of operations, upon effectiveness of the application
        of
        FASB Statement No. 123R (Share-Based Payment) which the Company will adopt
        effective January 1, 2006. The pre-tax charge estimated by the Company to
        be
        avoided as a result of the acceleration amounts to approximately $1.0 million
        over the course of the original vesting periods. The estimated pre-tax charge
        avoided is $0.3 million in 2006, $0.3 million in 2007 and $0.3 million in
        2008.
        The acceleration of vesting for these stock options is part of the transition
        to
        our new long-term incentive program as we will begin granting a combination
        of
        time and performance based options and restricted stock units in 2006 which
        will
        be reflected as compensation expense in our results of operations.
The
        Compensation Committee also required that as a condition of the acceleration,
        each executive officer agrees to refrain from selling common stock acquired
        upon
        the exercise of accelerated options until the date on which the exercise
        would
        have been permitted under the option's pre-acceleration vesting terms or,
        if
        earlier, their last day of employment.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
        to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant
        has
        duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto
        duly authorized.
FARO Technologies,
                Inc.
(Registrant)
Date:
December
                12, 2005
/s/
Barbara
                Smith
Barbara Smith
CFO