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CES the world's biggest consumer electronics show may still be two months away but 15 companies here in Las Vegas are vying for their golden ticket to not only win $50,000 but also remote boot space to display their new product or new website a new software package let's go inside and see what impresses things that really mean something to you all in one dedicated device videos documents and more on this passion each company had five minutes to present their product he's got two eyes not just one followed by another five minutes of Q&A from the panel of judges I know I had him here I stepped on them soul so I understand what you're saying I'm looking for somebody who's going to have a kind of a you know a real world product that that is a too fanciful that is actually practical and that works so i think this for them was a way to get smaller companies who might have gotten shuffle under the rug to get a little bit of spotlight and you know he judged more on merit than on marketing or on the size of their boot there was a wide variety of ideas and quality amongst the presenters what tagle allows consumers to do is go into a retail store make offers on items that they want to buy via their mobile phone get immediate confirmation on that bid purchase it that check out and walk out with it the same day we've synergized everything that's already off the shelf that works use a simple browser system to take that boring interface of a captive audience who's on there for 30 minutes no one has exploited that median for information feed and just because the concept sounds good to you but doesn't mean the judges are going to love it the really fun interactive part of I stage is that the audience gets to vote to using these little calculators you can assign one to five stars for every company one be the worse by being the best and the winner of the audience choice gets a booth space at CES maybe not the fifty thousand dollars as well but hey this CES that's pretty awesome in its own way the first award I'm going to announce is the fan favorite award promotion and display congratulations thank you very much and now for the judges pick congratulations to Boxxy you can see what your friends are watching you can see what people recommend to you and it takes all the media that you have whether it's on your laptop or on your desktop or on an as storage appliance in your house and if it's all the artwork it's all the lyrics the subtitles everything about media has built with this visual interface we have oxy why boxy I think of all the companies presented here today they did they have a product that's available today for consumers to better consume content but tell me what you're most excited about the booth space or the fatty check oh so the fatty check I didn't want to talk about this yet because they didn't want to jinx it but we're actually taking half of our check and giving that to the XBMC community and the other 25k you guys are going to aruba for a few weeks well red or black that's the question better fire I guess we've got a date at the roulette wheel well there you have it friends we have PDT as the fan favorite and boxy as the judges favorite cnet will be sure to check in with both companies at CES in January but now I got to get myself to the roulette table $25,000 to play with I'm cars to boy in Las Vegas cnet com