Samsung, LG sweep CES innovations awards

The country’s IT behemoths Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics swept the innovations awards of the Consumer Electronics Show 2013, its organizers said on Tuesday.

The Consumer Electronics Association, which organizes the world’s top electronics trade show, said that a total of 27 Samsung products won the CES 2013 Innovations Award, while LG brought home 10 awards.

“The CES Innovations Award highlights the robust innovation within the consumer electronics industry,” said Karen Chupka, senior vice president of events and conferences at the CEA. 

“This year’s honorees have creative products with impressive design and engineering expertise. We look forward to seeing all these products at the 2013 International CES.”

The innovations awards aim to honor outstanding design and engineering advancements in 29 consumer electronics product categories such as video displays, embedded technologies, wireless handsets, digital imaging and tablets.

The honoree announcement, which was given at a press event in New York on Nov. 12, comes ahead of the upcoming CES, which takes place from Jan. 8-11 next year in Las Vegas.

Products that won “Best of Innovations” at the event include Samsung’s 85-inch ultra-high-definition television and its camera for smart TVs, and LG’s 84-inch ultra-HD Cinema 3-D Smart TV.

Others that received the innovations awards are: Samsung’s flagship smartphone Galaxy S3 and LG’s latest Optimus G in the category of wireless handsets; and Samsung’s organic light-emitting diode TV, smart multi-function oven, micro SD memory card, Exynos 5 Dual application processor and LCD transparent display among others.

LG’s blu-ray player and docking speaker along with its high-efficient smart washer were also named in the product list of honorees.

By Cho Ji-hyun (sharon@heraldcorp.com)