CES's Fake "Award" Mill Still Churning

We keep getting CES-related missives from tech companies containing lines like these:

"A recent winner of CES’ prestigious Innovation Design and Engineering Award"

"[Products] honored for their innovation by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)."

"Best of Innovations winner"

This is the best:

"The prestigious Innovations Awards recognize the most innovative consumer electronics products in the industry, and have become a hallmark signifying the best-designed products in consumer technology"

No, they haven't. They're a joke.

This fake "award" mill is akin to doctoral degrees that creationists order from trailer park seminaries, or to the seals of approval that multi-level marketing pyramids slap on the junk they don't actually sell. It's an unethical marketing backslap to help shovel second-tier products at unsophisticated consumers.

Bought-and-paid for and empty of meaning, previous awards include one for the Atom Chip laptop, which has a 6.8 GHz CPU and terabytes of RAM. Do you think the "panel of independent industrial engineers" that rubber-stamp these applications took much of a look at that one?

Amazing how it never comes to market.