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KODAK EASYSHARE Products Win Four Prestigious Innovations 2006 Design and Engineering Awards; Honor Includes ``Best of Innovations'' Awards for the EASYSHARE-ONE WiFi Digital Camera and the EASYSHARE Photo Printer 500.


NEW YORK New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 -- Kodak innovation was spotlighted last evening at the International Consumer Electronics Show Press Preview, where the company's digital products and services won four prestigious Innovations 2006 Design and Engineering Awards. The groundbreaking KODAK EASYSHARE-ONE zoom digital camera and the EASYSHARE Photo Printer 500 were named "Best of Innovations 2006" award winners for the digital imaging and digital imaging accessories categories, respectively, while the KODAK EASYSHARE Kodak EasyShare is a sub brand of Eastman Kodak Company products identifying a consumer photography system of digital cameras, snapshot printers, printer docks, accessories, camera docks, software, and online print services. EasyShare was first introduced in 2001.  Gallery Premier Service and EASYSHARE V550 zoom digital camera garnered Innovations 2006 Design and Engineering honors.

The Innovations 2006 Design and Engineering Awards, sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association and endorsed by the Industrial Designers Society of America Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) is an organisation of professional industrial designers in the United States. It was formed in 1965 by merger of three American designer associations: American Designers Institute (IDI), American Society of Industrial Design , honors superior design and engineering among the year's most technologically advanced products. Chosen for the honor by a panel of independent industry designers, engineers and journalists, the KODAK products will join other winning products on display in the Innovations Design and Engineering Showcase, booth #72444, in the CES Innovations Plus exhibits at the Sands Expo The Sands Expo and Convention Center, at 1.2 million square feet (110,000 m²), is the second largest convention center in the Las Vegas, Nevada area. It opened in 1990 across the street from the original Sands Hotel.  and Convention Center, from January 5 - 8, 2006.

About the Kodak Award Winners

The KODAK EASYSHARE-ONE digital camera combines the power of sharing, taking, organizing, and printing pictures into a single, highly innovative product. Only the EASYSHARE-ONE camera has the ability to send e-mail from the camera, to connect to the KODAK EASYSHARE Gallery at home and on-the-go from thousands of hotspots worldwide, to store up to 1,500 favorite pictures, and to optimize viewing and operation via its unique touch screen and graphical menus. It is the ultimate picture sharing device, redefining the digital photography experience.

The universal KODAK EASYSHARE Photo Printer 500 brings the benefits of real KODAK pictures at home to virtually all digital camera and camera phone owners -- with or without a computer. People who use CANON, SONY, OLYMPUS, NIKON, HP and other camera brands can experience the same great quality that EASYSHARE camera owners have enjoyed for the past two years. The Photo Printer 500 makes real KODAK pictures easily, directly, and consistently from virtually any digital media in about 60 seconds, including most popular memory cards (SD, MMC See MultiMediaCard and Microsoft Management Console. , CF, xD-Picture Card The xD-Picture Card is a type of flash memory card, used mainly in digital cameras. xD originally stood for extreme Digital.[1] The cards were developed by Olympus and Fujifilm and introduced into the market in July 2002. , MEMORY STICK), USB USB
 in full Universal Serial Bus

Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer.
 flash memory devices, PICTBRIDGE enabled digital cameras, mobile devices enabled with BLUETOOTH(R) wireless technology, and Wi-Fi enabled computers (optional KODAK WI-FI(R) card required for the printer). People can also view and edit their pictures on the integrated 3.5-inch LCD screen.

With KODAK EASYSHARE Gallery Premier Service, subscribers receive a personalized Web site address (e.g., www.kodakgallery.com/YourName) that features their own photos and captions. In addition, Gallery Premier puts photos in the center of the conversation by allowing family and friends to post comments. Subscribers also receive one click publishing of albums from an existing Gallery account, and the ability to download high-resolution photos in just one click.

The sleek KODAK EASYSHARE V550 camera -- about the size of a deck of cards -- breaks new ground in blending video and still photography. For the first time, videos can be automatically turned into stop-action still pictures perfect for printing and sharing. Avoid on-screen on·screen or on-screen  
adj. & adv.
1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen.

2. Within public view; in public.
 shaking with built-in image stabilization Image stabilization (IS) is a family of techniques to increase the stability of an image. It is used in image-stabilized binoculars, photography, videography, and astronomical telescopes.  technology, and zoom in on video subjects in real time using the professional-caliber SCHNEIDER-KREUZNACH lens to record longer, TV-quality videos with sound -- up to 80 continuous minutes -- while using less memory storage *. In addition to its high-end video performance, the V550 model captures all moments with 5MP resolution and its pro-caliber, SCHNEIDER-KREUZNACH C-VARIOGON 3X optical zoom Changing the focal length of a camera by adjusting the physical zoom lens. All zoom lenses in film cameras and digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras are optical zoom. Digital point-and-shoot cameras as well as consumer and prosumer video camcorders have optical zoom, but they also  lens.

The innovative KODAK EASYSHARE digital photography system -- consisting of cameras, viewers, services, software, docks, home snapshot printers, papers and accessories -- makes taking, organizing, sharing, and printing high quality digital pictures effortless. More information on KODAK EASYSHARE products is available at www.kodak.com/go/EasyShare/

About Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, print and view images - for memories, for information, for entertainment. With sales of $13.5 billion in 2004, the company is committed to a digitally oriented growth strategy focused on the following businesses: Health -- supplying the medical and dental industries with traditional and digital imaging-information products and services, as well healthcare IT solutions and services; Graphic Communications - offering on-demand color and black and white printing, wide-format inkjet printing, high-speed, high-volume continuous inkjet printing, as well as document scanning, archiving and multi-vendor IT services; Digital & Film Imaging Systems - providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services; and Display & Components - which designs and manufactures state-of-the-art organic light-emitting diode Noun 1. organic light-emitting diode - a self-luminous diode (it glows when an electrical field is applied to the electrodes) that does not require backlighting or diffusers
OLED
 displays as well as other specialty materials, and delivers imaging sensors to original equipment manufacturers. More information about Kodak (NYSE NYSE

See: New York Stock Exchange
: EK) is available at www.kodak.com.

* Video is 30 frames per second at VGA (Video Graphics Array) The display standard for the PC. All PC display adapters support VGA, and Windows machines boot up in "VGA mode" before switching to higher resolutions.  (640 x 480) resolution, with MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). 4 compression. Total length is dependent on memory card capacity.

KODAK, EASYSHARE, and EASYSHARE-ONE are trademarks of Eastman Kodak Company. Schneider-Kreuznach and C-Variogon are trademarks of Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH used under license by Eastman Kodak Company. The Bluetooth trademark is owned by the Bluetooth SIG, Inc. Wi-Fi is a registered trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance.
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