20 Colorado Companies at CES

Companies from FreshBaked.com's home state of Colorado are making an impressive showing at this year's most important event, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Amid keynote speeches by luminaries on the level of Bill Gates and Michael Dell, 3,000 firms will show their wares to 150,000 or more viewers, including industry movers and shakers. They will be sure to notice these companies that call Colorado home:

• Able Planet Inc. (Fort Collins) - Products for people with all levels of hearing loss.
• Ayre Acoustics Inc. (Boulder) - "designing and building superior quality, award-winning audio and video equipment since 1993."
• Boulder Amplifiers Inc. (Boulder) - High performance audio electronics since 1984.
• Case Logic (Longmont) - Making over 300 different storage products from CD wallets to laptop cases.
• Clark Synthesis Tactile Sound (Littleton) - For those who want to feel their home theater along with seeing and hearing it.
• Computerized Loud Speaker Labs (Arvada) - Also known as yg-acoustics, making high tech speakers out of aircraft aluminum and stainless steel.
• Cornice, Inc. (Longmont) - Manufacturers of Dragon series of one-inch micro disk drives to "Take it With You".
• EchoStar (Littleton) - Satellite TV at its finest, the Dish Network.
• Epilog Laser (Golden) - High quality laser engraving, cutting, and marking systems.
• Grand Prix Audio (Durango) - "The verdict's in: Grand Prix Audio makes the highest-performance vibration isolation devices in the business".
• Hopscotch Technology (Boulder) - Manufactures something called B.O.B. (Bring On Balance?), which restricts the amount of time kids and other users can access a device, like a TV, video game, or computer.
• Interact-TV Inc. (Westminster) - Media libraries for the home.
• Jeff Rowland Design Group (Colorado Springs) - Designing and manufacturing the highest quality audio components.
• Kwik Tek Inc. (Denver) - Manufacturers of floating waterproof cases and other sporting equipment.
• Labor Saving Devices Inc. (Commerce City) - Making specialty tools for wire and cable installers.
• Nite Ize Inc. (Boulder) - Designing and creating innovative flashlight and mobile accessories including cell phone holsters and running lights.
• Otter Box (Fort Collins) makes rugged waterproof cases for a variety of devices including laptop computers and iPods.
• PENTAX Imaging Co. (Golden) - Famous, high quality Pentax digital cameras and accessories.
• Uniden America Corp. (Denver) - Manufacturer of telephones and radios worldwide with a sales office in Denver.
• University College of the University of Denver (Denver) - An institute of higher education apparently peddling its online advanced degrees to audiophiles in Las Vegas.