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CES 2021 unveils its online-only innovation awards

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced its CES 2021 Innovation Awards honorees, marking the first time its winners will be recognized in an online-only format.

The annual awards are normally announced about this time of year, and then the winners are hosted at a media reception in Las Vegas at CES. But this year, the big tech trade show will happen virtually. The honorees represent 28 product categories, and they signify outstanding products, upcoming trends, and how tech companies are changing life for the better. I would typically attend that reception and interact with the tech.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.