CES Preview: Best of Innovations Honorees

At the CES Press Preview event in New York City's Metropolitan Pavilion this week, Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), hosted a press conference before unveiling the 2012 Innovations Design and Engineering Awards honorees.

The Innovations honorees included many winners in each of the program's 32 tech categories, but a few of them stood out even in their exalted company. Here are some of this year's most intriguing Best of Innovations honorees--products that earned particularly high marks across all of the categories.