GestureTek Mobile Chosen as Category Finalist in 2008 GSMA Mobile Innovation Global Awards

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan 24 /PRNewswire/ -- GestureTek Inc. -- the pioneer and world leader in computer vision control technology and provider of state-of-the-art gesture-based interactive solutions for over twenty years

-- today announced that the company's mobile business unit, GestureTek Mobile, has been selected as 1 of 2 Category Finalists in the 2008 GSMA Mobile Innovation Global Awards, in the 'Most Innovative Mobile Application in a Vertical Market' category. GestureTek was selected for its innovative gesture-controlled mobile gaming and navigation software. Category Winners and an Overall Winner will be announced during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 11th-12th. GestureTek will be exhibiting in the Canadian Pavilion, Booth 2.1C58 and at the Telefonica Booth, 8B178 and 8B185. As a 2008 Mobile Innovation Award Category Finalist, GestureTek will also be exhibiting at booth IZ21 at the Innovation Zone in the Mobile Innovation Marketplace.

The Mobile Innovation Global Awards were launched by GSMA, a global trade association representing over 700 GSM mobile phone operators, to help companies developing innovative mobile products and services reach mobile operators and bring their innovations to end-users. The Awards also stimulate and showcase innovation and align innovators with the needs of the mobile industry and its customers.

GestureTek's EyeMobile Engine takes mobile gaming and navigation to new heights. This software-only solution uses the existing camera on a mobile device to deliver a gesture-based interface to mobile applications. An entertaining and intuitive alternative to conventional button interfaces, EyeMobile allows users to do anything they would normally do with their mobile device, such as play games, answer calls, make menu selections or scroll, pan and zoom in on photos, simply by shaking, rocking or rolling their device. With the EyeMobile Engine, handset manufacturers can offer all the benefits of gesture recognition technology, without the expense and real estate of adding specialized hardware. The EyeMobile Engine Application Programming Interface (API) also provides application developers with the means to integrate motion control into their applications, much as they do with current conventional controls such as keys and buttons.

"Recognition from the 2008 Mobile Innovation Global Awards is a significant accomplishment for GestureTek Mobile. It is further evidence of the growing popularity of GestureTek's gesture-recognition software in the mobile marketplace and with manufacturers of other equipment such as consoles, PCs and set top boxes," says Bill Leckonby, CEO of GestureTek Inc.

Since GestureTek Mobile's inception in 2006, the company's achievements have been significant:

    -- Embedded the company's software on more than 50 million mobile devices
       worldwide -- including those operating on the Microsoft Windows Mobile
       6 platform and various handsets from carriers such as Verizon, Alltel
       and Cellular South, and the NTT DoCoMo 904i, 905i and 705i series.
    -- Delivered the technology used in more than 100 gesture-controlled games
       and applications launched by developers worldwide.
    -- Introduced the world's first application that allows gesture-controlled
       navigation of maps with GPS integration.
    -- Won more than a half-dozen awards and accolades for mobile technology
       innovation, including LAPTOP Magazine's 'Best of CTIA', the NATPE
       Mobile ++ Top 12 hot mobile applications, BREW Game Developer's 'Best
       Up and Coming Application', International Mobile Gaming Awards and the
       IGN Editor's Choice Award.
    -- Featured its gesture-enabled games on Mobile Internet Devices based on
       Intel low power technologies at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in
       Las Vegas.
    -- Announced a partnership and investment agreement with Spain's leading
       telecommunications operator, Telefonica SA, to finance market growth
       and expansion and to further develop and commercialize new
       gesture-controlled gaming and navigation applications for the mobile
       marketplace, as well as for PCs, consoles and set-top boxes.
    -- Licensed the company's patents and technology to industry giants such
       as Microsoft, Sony, Hasbro, NTT DoCoMo and many other game development
       companies.

In addition to NTT DoCoMo and Telefonica, GestureTek's 3000+ clients include Fortune 500 companies such as Cingular/AT&T, Verizon, Samsung, Vodafone, CNN, BMW, Ford, Oracle, Intel, IBM, Federal Express and Panasonic. Get more information about GestureTek and its technologies at http://www.gesturetek.com.

About GestureTek Mobile

GestureTek Mobile is a business unit of GestureTek Inc., the world leader, pioneer and patent-holder in computer vision and gesture-recognition technologies for information, presentation and entertainment systems. The company's software lets users control interactive content, access information, manipulate special effects or immerse themselves in an interactive 3D virtual world, simply by moving their hands or body. GestureTek is the inventor of the EyeMobile Engine, the world's first software-only solution that provides cell phone users with the ability to play games, scroll menus, navigate maps and browse web pages simply by shaking, rocking or rolling their cell phone. GestureTek Mobile developed the first gesture-recognition software to be embedded on DoCoMo, Verizon and Windows Mobile 6 mobile devices, and is the first company to deploy a market-ready gesture-controlled mapping application on a cell phone.

For more information visit http://www.gesturetekmobile.com. For more information contact: Patti Jordan, Director Marketing & Communications GestureTek Inc. (416) 340-9290 x 274 patti.jordan@gesturetek.com