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Award Winning Invention

The market is flooded with new inventions and innovations that are suppose to make our live easier and more efficient. The fact of the matter is that only tiny fractions of these so called ?innovations? are actually marketed and sold, not to mention used. And then there are also those who make it big, like Flexity, LLC. The company that invented the award-winning PowerSquid Surge Protector won the Scientific American Innovations People?s Choice Award.

The company received the prize at the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show, the world`s largest technology tradeshow. With more than 150,000 attendees from 110 countries, the 2006 International CES was a major global event at which thousands of new products and technologies were introduced into the world marketplace. Throughout the show, attendees voted at electronic polling stations in the Innovations Design and Engineering Showcase for their favorite innovation of 2006.

Chris Hawker, founder of Flexity, LLC, and inventor of the PowerSquid said, ?This award validates our contention that what people really want are solutions to their problems, not just bigger TVs or smaller cameras. This is a story of the triumph of clever design over brute technology. Hear we are with our first product, and we managed to beat out major household names like Phillips, Samsung, Adobe, Kodak, HP, and Sony, to name but a few?it?s a David and Goliath story!?