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Innovations 2009 Design and Engineering Awards Categories

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Audio Accessories
Products designed to enable, enhance, connect and/or maintain home audio systems and components.

Audio Components
Products designed to deliver, control, store and/or manage audio content including records, tapes, disc-based audio, MP3 and hard drive storage.

Computer Accessories
Products designed primarily around single use functionality to enable, enhance, connect, power and/or maintain desktop and/or portable computer systems.

Computer Hardware
Includes all desktop and portable computer systems capable of accepting user input, storing and retrieving data, displaying or outputting a video signal and are capable of running application software. Does not include products whose primary purpose is making and receiving phone calls.

Computer Peripherals
Products designed to connect to, and extend the functionality of desktop or portable computer systems. Examples include products that provide printing, network and user input and output display.

Digital Imaging
Products designed to enhance the visual experience and/or allow the user to capture, store and edit still or movie video images.

Eco-Design and Sustainable Technology
Innovative features incorporated into consumer electronics products that make them safe for the environment and sustainable, efficient and clean energy use, manufacturing processes that reduce use of environmentally relevant substances (lead, mercury), durability/end-of-life (reuse, refurbish, remanufacture, recycle), resource conservation, solar power, use of recylced inputs, untraditional forms of power and modes for providing technology/connectivity to developing communities.

Electronic Gaming
Products designed to allow one or more users to interact with electronic games. Examples include consoles, controls, storage devices and network connectivity accessories.

Enabling Technologies
Software embedded in silicon designed to provide functionality to finished products or subassemblies.

Furniture
Items designed to facilitate the use of consumer electronics products and/or the collection and organization of individual components. The category also includes items designed to store, manage and/or display collections of recorded media.

Headphones
Devices which allow users to listen to audio content (music, radio, video soundtracks, live TV broadcasts and telephone conversations). The devices may incorporate microphones for user voice response or input.

Health and Wellness
Products designed to test, monitor, or analyze the health, well-being, fitness and/or medical condition of an individual or provide therapeutic benefit. Products should have significant electronic functionality as a central part of the item’s operation.

High-Performance Audio
Separate audio components and speakers which provide for optimal performance and sound reproduction. Items are typically produced in very limited quantity and are handcrafted.

Home Appliances
Products designed to provide home heating and cooling, food storage and preparation and home cleaning.

Home Networking
Products and accessories which enable users to maintain a wired or wireless data network for the purpose of providing file, print and Internet access sharing. Systems may also include products and software which provide for remote and conditional access.

Home Theater Speakers
Includes speakers whose primary purpose is incorporation into a home theater system.

Home Theater Accessories
Items enable home theater component connectivity, power quality, mounting, storage and content management.

In-Vehicle Accessories
Products designed to enable, enhance, connect and/or maintain in-vehicle audio, video, and navigation systems, and components.

In-Vehicle Audio
Products and components designed to be part of an in-vehicle audio system.

In-Vehicle Control/OEM Integration
Products and components designed to facilitate the integration of aftermarket and OEM audio, video, and navigation systems in vehicles.

In-Vehicle Navigation/Telematics/ITS
Products and components designed to be part of an in-vehicle navigation and/or information retrieval and transmission service.

In-Vehicle Video
Products and components designed to be part of an in-vehicle video system.

Integrated Home Systems
Products and components designed to be used as complete systems or subsystems in the home to control the distribution of and access to audio and video content. Systems also control lighting, energy and environmental systems and security access.

Multi-Room Audio/Video
Systems specifically designed to allow users to centralize content and then redistribute via multiple simultaneous discrete streams to multiple locations in a home.

Personal Electronics
Products designed around single function or multi-function uses which operate individually or in conjunction with other products.

Portable Media Accessories
Products designed to enable, enhance, connect, carry and/or maintain portable media players.

Portable Media Players
Products incorporating integrated storage and playback capability for audio and/or video content. Products have the capability to connect to desktop and portable computer systems to exchange content.

Portable Power
Devices designed to facilitate the powering and/or charging of consumer electronic products.

Telephones
Products designed to provide access to telephony services in the home and/or office.

Video Accessories
Products designed to enable, enhance, connect and/or maintain home video systems and components.

Video Components
Systems or components designed to provide for playback, storage and/or distribution of video signals and content in the home.

Video Displays
Devices whose primary purpose is the display of video content not including items marketed and sold primarily as computer monitors.

Wireless Handsets Accessories
Products designed to enable, enhance, connect, carry and/or maintain wireless handsets.

Wireless Handsets
Items marketed primarily for the ability to provide wireless calling capability. The products in this category, in addition to having voice calling features, may also incorporate wireless data and Internet access features along with built-in camera and media playback functionality.