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>> Thank you, everybody, thank you, thank
you. Well, my family is here. That's good
to see. Thank you so much. I'm Ryan
Cooley, editor at large at CNET.com and
this is the best of CES awards. How's your
show been? Pretty good? Yeah? Okay,
well, I'm gonna introduce you to 27 of the
products and companies that have had a
really good show 'cause they're nominees.
We're gonna recap those along the way. I'm
also gonna introduce you to nine products
that have had an outstanding show because
they're about to be revealed as winners in
their categories, and we're gonna need one
product and the company behind it that's
willing to be having a really great CES
'cause that will be our best of show plus
we have people's voice coming. We have
nine categories in the best of CES awards.
We're gonna run through those and, of
course, people's voice is what you and many
of the CNET users of our 20 million monthly
uniques have been voting on at
voice.cnet.com. That's always the wild
card. We never know where that's one's
gonna go so that's always very interesting.
And of course best of show is almost too
tension filled to stand. That's the one
where a product takes away the award for
the entire show. So without any further
adieu, we're gonna get started. Here's how
it works. As I roll out the categories and
review the nominees and announce the winner
in each category, don't come give me a bear
hug, go give Molly Wood a bear hug.
Executive editor Molly Wood is back there
at the winner's circle. And she is
standing by to present the award in each of
the nine categories plus people's voice
and, of course, I'm keeping the coveted
best of show right here next to me. So
we're gonna have a little special talk when
we have that particular winner names. With
that said, let's get right to it now and
begin the 2010 best of CES awards.
Starting off with a category that is
absolutely a perennial in the world of CE,
it's how consumers get out there and
capture their memories. And of course it's
digital photo and video. This year we saw
a lot of trends including mega zoom plus
ultrawide lenses, of course, a lot of HD
capture on still cameras. Flash has taken
over all but the fewest of the camcorders
in the marketplace and we're also seeing
GPS technology finally make it into
cameras. So let's now review the nominees
for the best of CES award 2010 in the
category of digital photo and video. Those
nominees were, as they were announced here
just about 24 hours ago, the Casio Exilim
EX-FH100, the Sony cyber-shot DSC HX 5 V
and the third nominee was the Eye-Fi Pro X2
SD card with built in wi-fi. And the
winner in the category of digital photo and
video is, Eye-Fi, Eye-Fi Pro X2. Let's
hear it for them. Head to the winner's
circle. Whoever's here from Eye-Fi, make
your way to see executive editor Molly Wood
and pick up your trophy. Now the Eye-Fi
card now has 8 gig of total capacity on the
high-end version. They've added 802.11 N
for better speed and for better power
conservation, also a technology built in
where the card can be programmed to clear
itself as it transfers photos so your card
is always free for the maximum number of
pictures that you've already gone and
stored somewhere else. Great innovative
product. Okay, let's get to our next
category now. This is the one that in
recent years has really soared to new
preeminence here at CEA and it's become,
shall we say, a member of the fast lane of
visibility here at the show. Of course I'm
talking about car tech and GPS. We saw
connected cars this year. We saw streaming
media. We saw apps that connect your car
to your smartphone and of course an
enormous number of audio and video systems
are in vehicles, many of them necklace
[assumed spelling], having no optical drive
or anything of that nature involved at all.
So now let's review the nominees for this
fast-moving category, car tech and GPS.
They were Alpines IDA-X305 S necklace
streaming head unit. We also liked
Pioneer's AVIC X920BT. Hello Pioneer. And
we also were very fond of Ford's MyFord
Touch, three really strong winners,
nominees I should say. And the winner in
the car tech and GPS category is, it's
Ford's MyFord Touch. Head to the winner's
circle, folks. Now the MyFord Touch
platform is part of a whole new interface
with both voice, touchscreen command, a
zone system to make use of the vehicle very
easy and low distraction. Plus they're
also rolling out connectivity for wi-fi
hotspot in the car you can bring your own
air card to and apps within the sync
platform including an early roll out of
Pandora streaming to the vehicle. Okay,
our next category, a category that keeps
surprising consumer with the amazing amount
of technology you can actually carry in
your pocket. And that, of course, is cell
phone and smartphone technology. This year
we saw a lot of branching out of phones
that can do just about anything that any
other computer device can do. It showed
the continued encouragement of smartphones
into many other categories of CE making
them truly the Swiss army knife of the
high-tech digital lifestyle that we enjoy
when we come to this show and, of course,
all over the world elsewhere. Let's take a
look now to recap the nominees in cell
phones and smartphones and they were
Motorola's backflip, also the Sonim XP3.20
Quest Pro Ultra-Rugged phone and the LG
Lotus Elite. Now the winner in the cell
phone and smartphone category for the best
of CES award is, ah, Motorola's backflip.
Let's hear it for Motorola. Head to the
winner's circle, guys. The backflip is
fascinating. It's got a display that can
show on one side while the keyboard remains
exposed on the other and when you flip it
into that mode there, you have a touchpad
on the back of the display for moving
around the various icons on the screen
plus, of course, it's also a touchscreen.
So an amazing combination of interfaces all
around the device like we've never quite
seen before. Let's move on to our next
category now, the best of CES awards. By
the way, these awards are the official
awards of the consumer electronics show,
not just CNET's awards, but these are the
awards for the show, the awards of record.
These really are great honors for these
vendors, so give them a great hand. We do
have nominees and the winners here. Thank
you. Okay, our next category, a category
that is so central to what CE is all about.
It really was one of the original fonts of
where so much innovation and integration
came from. Let's take a look at this next
category. It's computers and hardware, one
that can be just about anything. It can be
a portable netbook. It can be a device
that's going to bring you media that looks
almost like a television. We've got all
kinds of computing powers showing up in
devices that go from tablet to
configurables to convertibles to luggables
to, of course, still the full-powered
desktops. All of that a huge part of this
expanded range of computer and hardware
technology. Now let's review the nominees
in computers and hardware. And they were
as announced right here 24 hours ago at the
CNET stage, Lenovo's IdeaPad U1 hybrid.
Also Intel's wireless display technology
and the Sony Vaio W green netbook.
Interesting mix there all comes from
different directions. And now the winner
in the computers and hardware category for
the best of CES award for 2010 is, ah,
Lenovo, the IdeaPad you want. Head to the
winner's circle. Hollywood's got an award
for you guys. This is a fascinating
notebook computer that runs both Windows
when it's in notebook form or when you pop
out the display, as you can see there in
the photo, it becomes a Lennox-based tablet
and the two parts will sink when they're
reattach and, of course, they have separate
processors, power supplies, operating
systems but the integration is really quite
elegant, so bridging the gap between the
hot netbook today and the hot tablet of
tomorrow is part of what impressed our
editors. Let's go on to our next category
now, the category that is entirely all
about entertainment. That's gaming, of
course. Now gaming usually means hardware
here at CES and it did mean that, but
advanced controllers taking center stage as
well as games showing up on smartphones to
a much higher degree than before and
lightweight portable laptops and notebook
computers that can do gaming at high
refresh rates and high performance right
there with many of the better desktop
machine. So always a hardware intensive
category, gaming here at CES. Let's take a
look now at the nominees here in the gaming
category. And they were the Nyko Wand
plus, the Dell Alienware M11x
ultra-portable gaming machine and the Razor
sixth sense controllers, ultrahigh
precision controllers. And the winner in
the gaming category for best of CES award
for 2010, it's the Dell Alienware M11x. We
were very impressed by this machine because
while it is an ultra portable very thin and
light notebook computer, it's got
upgradeable changeable graphics, no slouch.
When it [inaudible], you can bump it up
even more. It's a lightweight machine, it
promises 30 frame per second
high-definition gaming in a form factor
that small and light and at a price point
or just under a thousand dollars. So a lot
of things going on here that you didn't
think you could do with a portable gaming
computer. Very impressive performance
there by the folks at the Dell Alienware
division. Okay, our next category is a
category that tries to make you feel good
about any kind of tech you purchase. Yeah,
it's screen tech, the feel-good category.
We saw lots of solar charging going on out
there and a lot of things had to do with
low-power usage plus companies are trying
to pay attention to how they create their
products, what kind of materials go into
them. Was it recycled or responsible to
begin with as they build these things and
often end up being replaced and upgraded
and, of course, they go back into some kind
of use if they can be easily recycled. So
the green category has a lot of different
angles to it. And now let's review the
nominees in the categories of green
technology. And they were the Ten Rate
Technologies Picot Watt Wi-fi smart plug
[assumed spelling], Solar Power
International's Freeloader Pro and Control
4's EMS, Energy Management System 100
Platform, an entire platform of products
that work together. And the winner in the
green category for the 2010 best of CES
award is, it's Ten Rate. Ten Rate's
Technology, their Picot watt wi-fi smart
plug. To the winner's circle with you.
No, they're not excited. That's great.
That is an interesting product. You plug
it into an outlet, you plug in a device or
an appliance into that and then via wi-fi,
you can both control the outlet switching
power off and on and scheduling that. You
can also get readouts of power consumption
for whatever's plugged into it. So it's an
early way to jump start into the smart grid
while the grid itself is still working
itself that way which may be a long
gestation. You can get there sooner with a
product like this. So congratulations to
Ten Rate. We were very impressed by this
innovative approach. Okay, our next
category is the category that makes those
big HDTVs look good. This, of course, is
the category of home theater. Your HDTV
doesn't mean much unless it's got great
home theater components attached to it for
getting sources in and getting the audio
and the control out. Great remote controls
are always part of this category, of
course, the sources are critical with
high-def and now 3-D, all that much more
important. And as we try to get the
connections done, we're doing it more and
more wirelessly now so that in itself is
becoming another mini revolution in home
theater. Let's review the various very
different, very diverse entries in the
nominees in the home theater category. And
they were LG's BD590 Hard Drive Equipped
Blu-Ray Player. We also have Panasonic's
DMP BDT 350 3-D Blu-Ray Player and the
D-link Boxee Box. D-link in the house.
Okay, and the winner in the category of
home theater for the best of CES award for
2010 is, what do you think? It's LG with
the BD590. We were quite impressed by this
one because it puts a 250 gig hard drive
into a connected blu-ray player, so it's
starting to break all of the kinds of media
assets that you want to have in your home
theater today into one device and does it
very elegantly and, of course, internet
streaming is in there which, if you were at
our next big think super session earlier in
the show, you know that that over-the-top
screening of movies and tv we feel is
arguably the biggest trend in CE for the
year or two ahead. So congratulations to
LG. We'll go to our next category now.
This is the category that continues to put
more and more entertainment into your palm
or our pockets. Talking about MP3 and
video player, of course. And this year we
saw a lot of things that were beyond just
audio and even video but also software
running on these devices, connectivity like
we haven't seen before, eBook integration
across a category that's not only getting
smaller but also, in some cases bigger, to
handle eBooks and even some minimal web
browsing in there. And this is a category
that really is starting to show it has
another life, a second, shall you say,
rising into a whole new meaning in people's
lives. Let's review the category here and
the nominees for MP3 and video players for
the best of CES 2010. Samsung's W1 My Fit,
it's like having a fitness coach on a
player in your pocket. We also were very
impressed by the [inaudible] Tibet mobile
DTV to smartphone solution and the
enTourage eDGe which brings together both
an eBook reader and a web tablet. And the
winner in the category of MP3 and video
players for the best of CES 2010 is,
[inaudible] Tibets. Let's hear it for this
company which has brought mobile digital
television to smartphones, blackberry,
Android, iPhone, using the device you see
on the right, their product, you can beam
digital TV to a smartphone even if that
smartphone's not equipped for DTV
reception. This bridges that gap by
turning that DTV broadcast into wi-fi and
sending that to an app on the smartphone.
Clever solution to start to get mobile TV
going without having to replace the
hardware and smartphone they already like.
So congratulations to [inaudible]. Move on
to our next category now. This is the
category that is, in many ways, the biggest
every year here at CES. You know what I'm
talking about, it's televisions. The
products are big, the footprint of these
products are big and, of course, what they
mean in integration of other products is
always very much [inaudible] what happens
at CES every year. We saw connected
televisions, we saw thinner televisions,
bigger televisions, 3-D televisions and
televisions that can hold enormous amounts
of content within their own integrated
system. So let's take a look now to recap
the nominees for the best of CES awards for
2010 televisions. Here we have Panasonic's
VT 25 series, 3-D televisions, plasma
based. Toshiba's cell TV 4K with enormous
amounts of storage and tune into 3-D
rendering. And the LG LE 9500 series, also
thin and very impressive on image quality.
And the winner in the all- important
category of televisions for the 2010 best
of CES is, what do you think? It's
Panasonic, the VT 25 series, 3-D
television. Of course, 3-D TVs don't just
do 3-D. It's 3-D capable so you can do
more than that, it's a very important
upgrade path. I give them particular kudos
for actually including a pair of goggles
when they ship these televisions, something
the manufacturers don't do, and the goggles
don't look dorky. That in itself is a
technology breakthrough, so thank you
Panasonic for not making us look stupid
while we move ahead in technology. All
right, congratulations to them as they pick
up their award at the winner's circle from
Molly Wood, our executive editor. And now
we move into another category of a
different type entirely. We're done with
our nine specific categories that are
product based. Now we go to one that is
completely different, the one that tells
the CNET editors to sit down for a minute
while the users, like you, take over. It's
the people's voice award. This one's
interesting. We opened it up as we
announced the nominees just about 24 hours
ago at voice.cnet.com and anybody here at
the show or watching our coverage at
ces.cnet.com could see what's happening
here at the show and then go vote on any of
the 27 nominees that you've seen us recap
here. So that's the pool, but it's wide
open to the users to say, you know what?
This is what we think is the best across
all those 9 categories and 27 products. So
now let's find out what you, the users,
thousands voted on in the last 24 hours as
you saw what's happening here at the show
and decided what really matters in your
business or in your particular
technology-consuming life. The winner for
the 2010 people's voice award, it goes to
Intel's Wireless Display Technology.
Congratulations. To the winner's circle
for Intel. Now wireless display here,
they're also calling it wi-di. It will be
integrated into machines, laptops
frequently by manufacturers and then it
talks to an adapter box, like you see
there, which connects to any large display,
a television, a large computer monitor,
what have you, allowing to you to send
what's on your screen to the TV in a
full-screen well-rendered way. It saves
you all that cabling, all that fiddling
around with different types of connections
and translating signals and all that sort
of ugliness in the living room, or whatever
room in your house you're using this in,
that can make things just very kind of
unpleasant to bounce to a large television.
This is a very practical solution elegantly
done and the OME's will embrace it as well
as offering the products to consumers to
adapt to the monitor of their choice. All
right, folks, you know we're at now. We've
gone through our nine categories and the
people's voice and now it's time to look at
the category that everyone is really here
for. That's right, best of show. This is
the big one. This will be given to 1
product to the 27 that we've seen in the
nominee categories here that transcends its
category. It is simply the best product
we've seen at the show according to the
editors of CNET. It's not only killing its
category but it's showing the other
categories, how it's done, showing how to
really look at what consumers need and
where the technology can be embraced and to
really get there in an elegant, effective
and really compelling fashion. So now
without any further adieu for CES 2010, the
winner in the category of best of show is,
not that easy, I'm gonna make you wait for
it. Not that easy. The winner is
Panasonic, they've got the VT25 series best
of show. I want to see Panasonic up here.
This one's too good to wait. Now the VT25,
come on up and collect this one with me. I
want to see you guys right here, 2-D, 3-D,
good-looking goggles. Hi guys, how are
you? Who we got here? Dean, welcome.
Jason welcome. Come on up here, guys, I
want to give you the award. You've got one
already. Here's one for you, Dean. I
don't want you guys to be without. When we
talk about 3-D TV at this show, it was the
big topic for television. It was the big
topic for the show. What is the most
compelling aspect you think that will get
consumers to embrace it? The sets are
here, you've got a great effort here with
an outstanding-looking plasma, but what's
gonna get the consumer to pull the trigger
on a new TV?
>> Most definitely our overall lineup. I
mean not just the VT series that we're
offering for this year, but the entire
series going into 2010, just tremendous,
got a lot of new advancements in infinite
black pro.
>> Right.
>> And our panel, six [inaudible] drives.
So overall, just outstanding lineup of
[inaudible].
>> These are high-end TVs, not just
grafting on 3-D to an existing line.
>> Correct.
>> Now in terms of content, that, of
course, is one issue I know Panasonic's
been working with content raters a lot.
How do we get the content to flow out
there?
>> Well, as more studios come out with 3-D
content and consumers embrace it and go to
the stores, kind of use a full effect so
that consumers are buying and the demand is
built out there. So I would imagine once
that demand is built, there'll be consumers
going into the stores and wanting that and
the movie houses will be putting out that
content. So I think it will be out there
and it's gonna be a big demand for 3-D
content.
>> Okay, well, last question I got, tell me
the truth, you guys, when you leave work in
the evening like you grab a pair of those
goggles, you just wear them to look cool,
right? Right.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> You get in the car, you drive home.
They're on, they're flickering, you're
driving all over the road.
>> Late at night that we're heading home
so.
>> Yeah, that's a good thing. That scares
me. You see these guys on the road, you're
gonna want to avoid them. Hey guys,
congratulations, nice work. I want all the
winners, every single one of them on stage.
Stand here with us, guys. Big hand for all
the winners in nine categories, people's
voice. Everybody with a trophy, come on
up. Let's recognize these companies that
have done such a great job of knowing what
CE is all about and how to deliver it.
Congratulations. Congratulations. Come on
up. Everybody, come on up.
Congratulations, nice work. Thank you for
taking part. Excellent. Congratulations.
Outstanding products, everybody. Thank you
so much. These are the heroes of CES 2010.
Let's give a big hand for companies that
know how to do technology right. Hold
those awards up, guys. Let them see them,
nice and high. Nice and high. There we
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