Vuzix Smart Glasses Win CES "BEST OF INNOVATIONS" 2013 Design and
Engineering Award
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Nov. 13, 2012 /CNW/ - Vuzix Corporation (TSX-V:
VZX, OTC:BB: VUZI, FMB: V7X) announced today that its new Vuzix
Smart Glasses M100 was selected as an Innovations 2013 Design and
Engineering BEST OF INNOVATIONS honoree and picked as the
best new technology in the Wireless Handset Accessories product
category. In addition, Vuzix Smart Glasses also received the
honoree distinction in the Personal Electronics category as well,
making it two awards for this amazing new product.
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Vuzix Smart Glasses M100 is the world's first enhanced "Hands
Free" display and communications system for on-the-go data access
from your smartphone and the Internet. The Vuzix M100 contains a
virtual display with integrated camera and powerful processing
engine, running an Android OS, to wirelessly connect via Bluetooth
or Wi-Fi to your smartphone (iOS or Android) or other compatible
device. Powerful enough to connect to the Internet, run
applications and games on its own, the M100 works in harmony with
your smartphone to open up a plethora of existing and future
applications such as texts, video, email, mapping, and audio.
As a Hands Free accessory with AR camera/display functionality,
Vuzix Smart Glasses not only let you answer the phone with a visual
address book, they enable applications from reading text messages
and email to visual navigation along with more advanced features
like basic augmented reality applications. Vuzix Smart Glasses M100
include an integrated head tracker and GPS for spacial and
positional awareness and an integrated camera enables video
recording and still image capture. The interactive tracking and
integrated camera combined with applications on the M100 and a
smartphone linked to the Cloud, allow for the merging of virtual
information with the real world.
Paul J. Travers, Chief Executive
Officer, said, "We are honored to win this Innovation Award, our
first BEST OF INNOVATIONS among a competitive field of great
inventions. While we have consistently delivered new technology
each year to our customers, the Vuzix M100 represents our most
significant break through yet in design and capability. We believe
Vuzix Smart Glasses will have wide reaching impact on the way we
use mobile devices."
Mr. Travers continued, "Running the Android OS enables
application downloads directly into Vuzix Smart Glasses M100. This
flexibility is going to open up many amazing new solutions for our
users from advanced HUD navigation applications to gaming. Not only
are Vuzix Smart Glasses M100 a great hands free solution, but
finally there is a platform that is designed specifically for the
growing augmented reality markets. Enabling hands-free access to
applications from visual search to derivatives of mapping street
views – all will finally be available in a pair of Vuzix Smart
Glasses."
Vuzix Smart Glasses M100 will be showcased at the 2013
International Consumer Electronics Show, January 8th to 11t.h Vuzix
will be demonstrating a number of advanced hands-free applications
with them. Visit Vuzix at the Las
Vegas Convention Center's Central Hall, Booth
#14046.
Follow Vuzix on Twitter @Vuzix and facebook.com/Vuzix for the
latest news on Vuzix Smart Glasses and the company's entire line of
award winning video eyewear. If you're a developer, please sign up
to join Vuzix growing team of application developers at
www.vuzix.com/developer. Be one of the first to support this
amazing new step in the evolution of mobile information
technology.
About Vuzix Corporation
Vuzix is a leading supplier of
Video Eyewear products in the consumer, commercial and
entertainment markets. The Company's products, personal display
devices that offer users a portable high quality viewing
experience, provide solutions for mobility, wearable displays and
virtual and augmented reality. Vuzix holds over 47 patents and
patents pending and numerous IP licenses in the Video Eyewear
field. The company has won 12 Consumer Electronics Show Innovations
Awards and several wireless technology innovation awards, among
others. Founded in 1997, Vuzix is a public company (TSX-V:VZX -
News, OTC:BB: VUZI, FMB: V7X) with offices in Rochester, NY, Oxford, UK and Tokyo, Japan. For more information visit
www.vuzix.com.
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