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CNET's Best of CES Awards 2007
CNET's Best of CES Awards 2007
For the second year in a row, CNET will host the 2007 Best of CES Awards. CNET's expert editorial team will recognize the best new products at the show in 10 categories as well as a Best of Show and a People's Voice award selected by CNET's online audience of more than 15 million.

Submissions due by December 1, 2006.

CNET's Best of CES Awards 2007

Award categories

1. Digital photo and video
2. Car tech
3. Cell phones and PDAs
4. Computers and hardware
5. Emerging technologies
6. Gaming
7. Home audio
8. Home video
 9. MP3 and portable video
10. Televisions




Awards criteria

CNET editors will name the Best of CES award finalists and winners based on the following:
  • Product must be new to the extent that it will be officially announced* or begin shipping** after December 1, 2006. Prototypes, reference designs, or products that represent a proof of concept will not be considered, with the exception of submissions to the Emerging Technologies category.
    *Announced means that the product manufacturer has officially declared the availability of the product at some definite date, even if that date is sometime later in 2007.
    **Shipping means that the product will become available for sale.

  • Product must be on exhibit at the 2007 International CES in Las Vegas.


  • The products that we evaluate for the Best of CES award will be judged on the basis of their promise to:
    • Pioneer a new category, establish an emerging category, or take an existing category to a new level.
    • Excite consumers with its style, innovation, usefulness, ease of use, and/or capacity to entertain.
    • Endow its owner with a certain cachet--the "cool" factor.
    • Work readily with other products in a consumer's life.
    • Make its way into everyday life.



Finalists and winners announcements:

Finalists:
When: Monday, January 8 at 5 p.m.
Where: CNET stage (South Hall lobby, second floor)

Winners:
When: Wednesday, January 10 at 2 p.m.
Where: CNET stage (South Hall lobby, second floor)

For questions, contact Liz Darby, Best of CES awards manager.