The winning entries from 30 product categories was judged by an independent panel of journalists, designers and engineers. These "best of the best" products was on display at the 2006 International CES in the all-new Innovations Plus at the Sands.

The Best of Innovations honorees for 2006 are:

Audio Accessories: Belkin, TuneStage for iPod
The Belkin TuneStage turns your iPod into the ultimate remote control and allows you to play the songs from your iPod through your home theater wirelessly via Bluetooth technology.

Audio Components: Polk Audio, Inc., I-Sonic Entertainment System
The Polk Audio I-Sonic Entertainment System: the first product of any type to include HD Radio, DVD/CD player and XM Ready technology for a total entertainment solution for any room.

Biometrics: Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., Palm Vein Authentication System
The Fujitsu PalmSecure, FAT12FC1L1, works by capturing a person's vein pattern image while radiating it with near-infrared rays. The sensor utilizes the latest in biometric security technology.

Computer Accessories: Jasco Products Company - GE Mobile 2.1 Digital Speaker
GE Mobile 2.1 Speaker (GE98904) provides superior digital surround sound though a subwoofer and two satellites with a convenient portable design complete with retractable cables, magnetic enclosure and travel case.

Computer Components: Logitech - Logitech G5 Laser Mouse
The Logitech G5 Laser Mouse features a highly versatile weight-tuning system, enabling gamers to customize the weight and balance of the mouse according to individual preference, resulting in superior control.

Digital Displays: eMagin Corporation - Z800 3DVisor
The Z800 3DVisor is world's first combination of high resolution OLED-based stereovision, advanced 360 degree headtracker and stereo sound for a 3D experience that puts viewers inside games or movies.

Digital Displays: LG Electronics USA Inc. -- LG Electronics 50-inch Wireless Plasma Display
LG Electronics' 50-inch Plasma Display Panel (50PB2DW) incorporates wireless technology eliminating all cords to the panel. With separate transmitter unit, the display provides crisp pictures from any connected source wirelessly.

Digital Imaging: Eastman Kodak Co. - Kodak EasyShare-one zoom digital camera
KODAK EasyShare-one digital camerathe world's first Wi-Fi consumer camera combines the power of sharing, taking, organizing, and printing pictures into a single, highly innovative product.

Digital Imaging Accessories: Eastman Kodak Co. - Kodak EasyShare Photo Printer 500
The universal KODAK EASYSHARE Photo Printer 500 brings the benefits of real KODAK pictures at home to virtually all digital camera and camera phone owners, with or without a computer.

Electronic Gaming: Powergrid Fitness Inc. - Exer-station
Exer-station transforms game play into muscle burning sport. Designed for use with PlayStation2, Xbox, and GameCube this health-conscious controller translates force applied to a 3-foot tall joystick into in-game motion.

Furniture: D-BOX Technologies, Inc. - D-BOX Quest X3ME
With Quest X3ME users are comfortably immersed, as never before, in realistic motion that is perfectly synchronized - on three separate axis points - with onscreen action and sound.

High Performance Audio: Hi-Fi Research Ltd - DaVinci Horn
The DaVinci Horn is a high efficiency single driver speaker that reproduces music to a level of realism and quality that few speakers can achieve - with just one watt.

Home Appliances: iRobot Corp. - iRobot Scooba Floor Washing Robot
The iRobot Scooba Floor Washing Robot?s innovative four-step cleaning process preps, washes, scrubs and dries hard floors, all at the touch of a button.

Home Appliances: Samsung Electronics America - Samsung Electronics'Four Door Convertible Refrigerator "Quatro"
Samsung's Four Door Refrigerator, RM255BARB, provides consumers with four separate compartments each controlled and cooled separately by individual cooling systems/evaporators. This technology provides flexibility in food management, and saves energy.

Home Networking: Russound - SMS3-250 Smart Media Server
Russound's SMS3-250 Smart Media Server supplies three different music streams, simultaneously. When used with a Russound RNET system, the artist, album, and song information is displayed on keypads and touchscreens.

Home Theater: Philips Electronics - Philips Home Theater System
Philips HTS9800W Home Theater System enhances any interior while high definition technology delivers unrivalled performance to revolutionize your viewing and listening experience.

Integrated Home Systems: Ace Computers/Ace Digital Home - Ace LHS IIHD Limited Media Server
ACE LHD Limited:Professional Media Server - 7" LCD Touchscreen, DualCore Processor, 3 Terabytes Storage w/RAID,Blue-Ray/Lightscribe/Multi-Layer DVD-Burner, 4 TV-Tuners (2 HDTV), Bluetooth Keyboard/Mouse-Comfortable in the living room,fully rack-mountable.

Mobile Office/Home Office: Flexity, LLC - PowerSquid Surge Protector
The PowerSquid's breakthrough design reinvents power delivery for modern, mobile lifestyles, providing the most sophisticated power protection on the planet and easily accommodating bulky plugs.

Mobile Office/Home Office: Sonare Technologies - Babble
Babble, model number JLS-1001, Voice Privacy without Walls. The world's first close-range voice privacy device that can protect your confidential spoken words in a wide-open space.

Online/Internet: Leadtek Research Inc - Leadtek H.264 based Triple-Play Set-Top Box
Leadtek's XTP8721, a H.264 based Triple-Play Set-Top Box, is capable of supporting today's demanding requirements in triple-play technologies, including IPTV, video-telephony, video streaming, DVD playback, VoIP, analog voice and online.

Personal Electronics: Celestron - SkyScout
The SkyScout is a handheld device that instantly identifies and/or locates any celestial object visible to the naked eye, providing educational and entertaining information, both in text and audio.

Portable Audio: Samsung Electronics America - YM-P1 Portable Multimedia Player
The YM-P1 Portable Multimedia Player is the world's first pocketsize satellite TV reception enabled player that also stores and plays music and video and allows for viewing photos.

Portable Power: Innovus Designs Inc - The "Fusion" Solar Messenger Bag w/ optional PowerPac
The Fusion Messenger Bag offers an integrated solar sharging solution with an optional PowerPac designed for the mobile professional.

Retail Resources: MTI - Intuition DS: RFID
MTI's Intuition DS: RFID is a comprehensive hardware and software solution leveraging RFID technology to deliver timely and targeted messages to shoppers with the purpose cross-selling or delivering product-specific information.

Robotics: RadioShack - Vex Robotics
The Vex Robotics Design System is an innovative product that allows students to build virtually any robotic device that their minds can conceive, while learning more about science and technology.

Software/Embedded Technologies: Able Planet, Inc. - LINX technology
Able Planet products feature the patent pending LINX technology. LINX improves speech intelligibility, reduces distortion, and enhances sound quality, bringing the world of sound to millions of people worldwide.

Telephones: Firefly Mobile - Firefly Mobile Phone
The Firefly phone is The Mobile Phone for Mobile Kids. This pioneering voice-only device was designed explicitly for Tweens and satisfies parents concerns about unrestricted cell use and monthly costs.

Vehicle Audio: Alpine Electronics of America, Inc. - VehicleHub Pro
Alpine's VehicleHub Pro allows for the addition of Alpine aftermarket audio, video and navigation products to an OEM system while keeping the functionality of the car?s HVAC controls in tact.

Vehicle Audio: Audiovox Electronics Corp. - XM Smart Digital Adaptor
The Audiovox-Terk XM Smart Digital Adaptor delivers an XM signal to any new or used vehicle equipped with an RDS stereo, resulting in a "factory-like" XM installation.

Vehicle Audio: Harman Consumer Group - Harman Kardon Drive + Play
Drive + Play from Harman Kardon offers all the music browsing capability of the iPod itself and can be used with any car audio system.

Vehicle Video: Icon-TV - Overhead HD Flipdown with PC
Widescreen 8" TFT LCD Overhead PC based Media-Center with HD Touchscreen Flipdown Monitor Model: F80WIR.

Vehicle/Mobile Electronics: Raysat Inc. - RaySat SpeedRay 3000
RaySat SpeedRay 3000: low-profile, roof-mounted, enclosed antenna turns any vehicle into rolling "hot spot," enabling high-speed Internet access for WiFi equipped devices (laptops, PDAs); hundreds of digital satellite TV/music channels.

Video Accessories: Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc. - Spontaneous Navigation
Hillcrest Labs' "Spontaneous Navigation" software and hardware products reinvent home multi-media content navigation and management on the television by leveraging free-space pointing, graphic presentation of content and rich metadata linkage.

Video Components: Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. - Scientific-Atlanta DVR with DVD Recorder/Player
Scientific-Atlanta's MCP-100 DVR with Built-In DVD Recorder/Player delivers the complete entertainment experience: SD and HD interactive television, dual tuner HD-DVR, Multi-Room DVR, and DVD player/recorder, all in one device.

Wireless Communications: Samsung Telecommunications America - SCH-i730
With its hidden full QWERTY keyboard, EVDO data speeds, Windows Mobile Pocket PC 2nd Edition and MP3 capabilities, Samsung's i730 is the most powerful handheld device on the market today.

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