By Carolyn Slater

Yeah, I’m still back at the office holding down the fort and missing all the Forum excitement in Las Vegas but I am enjoying regular updates via e-mail, podcast, and Twitter.

Nothing compares to the thrill of winning – unless it’s a huge check and a free booth at CES!

Today it was announced that Boxee won first prize in the iStage technology contest for their innovative “social” media center.  Boxee’s device allows users to share personal videos, music, photos and content from websites.  Their prize is $50,000 plus a booth at the 2009 International CES.  So if you missed them at the Forum, you can check out their products at their booth in January. 

Molly Wood was a fantastic iStage MC

Big thanks to our fabulous iStage judges, technology experts Kevin Kelly, Wired Magazine; Ryan Block, formerly of Engadget and Jeff Pulver. And special thanks to Molly Wood, executive editor of CNET, who served as Master of Ceremonies.

The “Fan Favorite” award, selected by the live audience votes, was won by Promotion and Display for their Novo Minora, the world’s first 3D webcam. They win a spot in the i-stage TechZone at the 2009 International CES.

 

 

 

The audience was even prepared to wear special accessories.

Congrats to all 14 companies who made it to the finals:

• Amulet Devices, The Amulet Remote
• Avaak, Vue ™ personal video network
• Boxee media center
• Frontline Inc., Fitness Interactive Technology (FIT)
• GenAudio Inc., AstoundSound
• IPEVO digital photo frame
• JFDI Engineering Ltd., GridSearch
• Lightglove, LtWv
• Next2Friends, People in Motion ™
• Occipital LLC
• Pongr Inc.
• PDT Ltd, Novo, Minora 3D Webcam
• Taggle
• YouBundle

Here are a few pics of the participants presenting at yesterday’s contest: 

 

All the finalists enjoyed some great national and local media coverage for their products:

 

 

To see all the latest innovations in technology register (free) for the 2009 International CES before November 1st

Photos courtesy of John Lindsey.

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