Spark Honored with CES Innovations Distinction

2006-11-14

The SwizzleStik^TM is selected as a Consumer Electronics Show 2007 Innovations Design and Engineering Honoree 

San Jose, Calif. – November 14, 2006 – Spark Technology Corporation today announced that its SwizzleStik is a CES Innovations 2007 Design and Engineering Showcase Honoree.  Announced at the CES Press Preview in New York City, the SwizzleStik was selected as an Honoree by a panel of judges who evaluated products based on these weighted criteria: user value, unique and novel features, contributions to the quality of life and aesthetic and design qualities.

Sponsored by Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the producer of the International CES, the world's largest consumer technology tradeshow, and endorsed by the Industrial Designers Society of America (ISDA), the CES Innovations Awards highlight product advancements in technology design and engineering.  Since 1989, the prestigious Innovations Design and Engineering Awards have given consumer technology manufacturers and developers an opportunity to have their newest products judged by a preeminent panel of independent industrial designers, engineers and members of the trade press to honor outstanding design and engineering in cutting edge consumer electronics products.

"CES is the world's largest, most respected stage for unveiling new products and we are thankful to the CEA and the innovations judges for honoring SwizzleStik as a CES Innovations Showcase Honoree. SwizzleStik is designed with the idea of combining mobile data and human life with simplicity, functionality, and value. It will surely benefit all mobile phone users", said Jo-ning Ta, Vice President of Engineering at Spark Technology. 

Spark Technology will officially introduce its SwizzleStik at the 2007 International CES, January 8-11, 2007 in Las Vegas, NV. The SwizzleStik will be on display at the Innovations 2007 Showcase, booth #68747 and at the Spark booth # IP229 in the Innovations Plus, both located at the Sands Expo and Convention Center.

For more information, please visit www.swizzlestik.com. SwizzleStik - Mixing Mobile with Life.

About Spark Technology
Spark Technology Corporation, headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, focuses on bringing innovation and ease of use to solve everyday problems for everyday people.  Today, mobile phones are everywhere and they do just about everything. Mobile phones are used to store important personal information such as contacts, photos and music.  The problem we all face is bridging the divide between our mobile phone and the rest of our world.

With our growing patent portfolio and leveraging our software and hardware expertise in the mobile and web spaces, Spark designs and develops products and solutions for consumers and carriers. For more information, please visit www.sparktech.com.

SwizzleStik is a trademark of Spark Technology Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Randy Lee

Spark Technology Corporation

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