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The Consumer Technology Association (CTA)® today announced its
CES® 2024 Innovation Awards honorees – including 36 products recognized as the year’s ‘Best of Innovation.’ The CES Innovation Awards is an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products across 29 product categories. The program was ALL ON for CES 2024, receiving more than 3000 submissions, a record high and a 40% increase over CES 2023.
Each year, an independent panel of industry expert judges, including members of the media, designers and engineers, reviews and rates submissions based on innovation, functionality, aesthetic, and design. Those rated the highest across all categories receive the Best of Innovation designation.
For the CES 2024 program, the top two categories by number of submissions were ‘digital health’ and ‘sustainability, eco-design & smart energy.’ This trend underscores the rapid pace of innovation in sectors that promise to solve big global challenges and improve human lives – a major theme at the show as CTA partners with the UN Trust Fund for Human Security and World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS) to advance human security. For the first time, the Best of Innovation list for CES 2024 includes a product from the ‘Human Security’ category, introduced at CES 2023.
The CES 2024 Innovation Awards also features a new category – artificial intelligence (AI). The AI category received 7% of all applications, underscoring that innovators are increasingly recognizing the transformative potential of AI in shaping the future of technology. AI will also be pervasive throughout the CES 2024 show floor and conference programming.
The full Best of Innovation list and all 522
Innovation Award honorees will be announced during CES 2024, where many of the products will appear in the Innovation Awards Showcase at CES, located in the Venetian Expo.