For better or much worse, Best of CES award winners this century

Summary: From 2000-2012 the winners of the Best of Show award have had very spotty track records and many were destined for failure.

By Andy Smith | January 11, 2013 -- 21:37 GMT (13:37 PST)

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2000 prize: CyberGenie from Cygnion Corp was a cordless phone system that used 2.4GHz digital spread spectrum radio technology and speech recognition to manage the communications for a SOHO (if you remember what that is) or small business. It could assist up to 20 users.

The basic package included a base station, one cordless handset and "CyberGenie@Work" software at a cost of $499.

Topic: CES

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the descriptions dont match the pictures

And the pictures don't match the years, please fix

the_tyrant
10 January, 2013 23:42

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- I know. I was amazed that in 2001 a 500MB storage device
  
  was the size of a large TV.
  
  William Farrel
  11 January, 2013 02:08
  
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- Yep
  
  You're right.
  
  And Andrea's story wasn't astonishing at all.
  
  DannyO_0x98
  11 January, 2013 02:45
  
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Embarrassing!

Does anyone review these before "publishing"? Based on the number of times errors exist, I'd say not!

tracy.hayford
11 January, 2013 15:37

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- Obviously not
  
  Yesterday it was a mess.
  Today it is still a mess.
  Andy Smith ... not good
  
  paul2011
  11 January, 2013 23:00
  
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Is that list for the best VAPORWARE at CES??

Except for the XBox, all other devices were either no-shows (ie: never produced) or epic failures.

wackoae
12 January, 2013 05:39

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