ELAN Wins CES Innovations 2001 Award

VIA!ô Awards Pile Grows

30-Jan-01

Yet another group has recognized the VIA!ô Touch Panel as one of the year 2000ís best electronic products.ELAN Home Systems has won a consumer technology design award sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and endorsed by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). ELAN received the Innovations 2001 award at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The award honors ELANís VIA! Touch Panel.The worldís most widely renowned consumer technology awards program, Innovations recognizes the best designed and engineered products in consumer electronics. Winning products are showcased at the 2001 International CES.Products are judged by a preeminent panel of journalists, designers and engineers. Weighted criteria for the contest include engineering qualities, intended use, unique features and esthetic qualities.""Since its debut last year, VIA! has received many honors,"" said Bob Farinelli, ELANís Chief Technical Officer and President. ""It won an Electronic Lifestyles Award for Manufacturerís Excellence from the Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association, a Product Of The Year award from AudioVideo Magazine, and now this. VIA! truly deserves the praise it has been receiving - it is a fun, easy-to-use product that can control the whole house.""VIA! is a full-color LCD touch panel that can be used to control numerous audio/video components and whole-house systems such as lighting, temperature and security. It also is a high quality color monitor that allows you to view video sources such as cable and satellite TV, DVD and closed-circuit TV cameras. The panels can be flush-mounted in a wall or installed in attractive real-wood tabletop ""valets."" With seven different trim plates and selectable screen motifs, each panel can be designed to match the decor of any room. The 6.4-inch screen allows for large, user-friendly graphics and eliminates the need to scroll through numerous ""pages"" to control A/V components or house-wide systems. And VIA! is a universal touch panel that can be integrated into any audio/video system.ELAN Home Systems is a manufacturer of high end distributed audio/video and home automation systems based in Lexington, Kentucky. For more information, visit www.elan.com.

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