Empower Technologies(TM) Announces Three Products Nominated for the 2006 International CES Innovations Design and Engineering Awards

RICHMOND, BC, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Empower Technologies Corporation ("Empower"), an industry leader in Linux-based embedded solutions, is very pleased and honoured to have three of its newest products nominated for the prestigious International Innovations Design and Engineering Awards.

Since 1989, the Innovations Design and Engineering Awards have given consumer technology manufacturers and developers an opportunity to have their newest products judged by a pre-eminent panel of independent industrial designers, independent engineers and members of the trade press. In addition, this awards program recognizes and judges the most innovative consumer electronics products in over 30 categories and nominees are selected globally each year for the awards presentations at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held in Las Vegas each January.

"We are very pleased at Empower Technologies to have not one, but all three of our new products selected from thousands of possible worldwide contenders" states Alex Romanov, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Empower.

Empower Technologies is a third party vendor partner of Texas Instruments and is very excited to have it's latest LDK5910 Developers Kit for the Texas Instrument OMAP5910 DSP chip nominated for this award with two additional consumer products.

"The LDK5910 is a development tool for software engineers and consumer electronics manufacturers/developers to fast track new products' time to market, dramatically reduce development costs and alleviate design delay due to multiple vendors", continues Romanov.

The LDK5910 enables engineers to develop "smart" consumer electronics by taking full advantage of LEOs(TM) operating software, a must have solution for developers/manufacturers to develop the widest range of consumer electronics devices and we look forward to seeing these as nominees at the 2006 design awards," Romanov concludes by confirming that the LDK5910 is available online at http://www.linuxda.com and from our US distributor Ultimate Solutions Inc., at http://www.ultsol.com for $900 US for immediate purchase and delivery.

The PowerPlay Pro Media Chair also nominated, clearly signals Empower's commitment to demonstrate to furniture and entertainment media manufacturers and developers that they too can take full advantage with Empower to create "smart" media furniture in parallel with today's evolving realism in video games, movies and music. The PowerPlay Pro Media Chair is the only true 5.1 Surround Sound seat powered by Logitech's Z-5500 digital audio system and it will be available in November 2005, retailing for less that $1000 US.

Finally, our Osaka product nominated is a powerful, smart music player and lifestyle experience that combines unprecedented sound quality with an impressive array of features in a compact clock radio form-factor. It is a true representation of the digital living room integrating the next generation of personal/home audio such as CD/DVD, MP3 within a powerful all-digital system. Osaka also is an elegant convergence of leading edge technologies with an onboard OMAP5910 dual-core processor and QVGA color LCD display touch panel. This product will be available for OEM customers and consumers by early next year.

"Our three selected products nominated for this prestigious award demonstrates our companies ability to be a one stop shop for LEOs(TM) (LinuxDA Embedded O/S) based software development platform. We are looking forward introducing our products to the industry at the CES tradeshow this January 2006, and are very excited about the future possibilities of our growing technology and organization", states Paul Leung, the Chairman, President and CEO of Empower Technologies.

For more information regarding pricing and product availability, please visit the Empower Technologies (http://www.empowertechnologies.com) website.

Empower would like to additionally announce the resignation of Mr. Christopher Graham from the Board of Directors of the Company, effective October 21st, 2005. Mr. Graham cited a possible conflict of interest for his resignation, as Empower and Mr. Graham consider opportunities for joint product development in the future.

Further to this, the Company does not expect to make any additional structural changes or executive leadership changes at this time. About Empower Technologies(TM) Founded in 2000, Empower Technologies is an innovative company that brings the power and flexibility of the LINUX Operating System (O/S) to the Consumer Electronics Industry and the emerging Intelligent Appliance Market, through their development of Linux-based operating software, embedded system technologies and solutions for the consumer electronics industry and the intelligent appliance market.

The products and services that form the base of its business activities include an embedded system development platform for its LinuxDA Embedded O/S (LEOs(TM)), based on Texas Instruments(TM) OMAP5910 dual core CPU platform, that fulfills the needs and demands of developers and the dynamic consumer electronics industry. Empower is continuing to develop LEOs(TM) and newer versions of embedded CPU's in line with Texas Instruments(TM).

By uniting top professionals from within the computer industry and developing quality partnerships and strategic alliances, Empower is committed to being the leading developer of Linux-based operating software and embedded system technologies and solutions for consumer electronics manufacturers and developers.

Empower's brands are "LinuxDA(TM)" and "LEOs(TM)" (http://www.linuxda.com), Linux-based embedded operating systems and "PowerPlay(TM)" (http://www.powerplaydevices.com), smart consumer electronics. Contact Information:

-------------------- Media Enquiries:

Paul Leung - Chairman, President and CEO (604) 278-3100 or

pcleung@empowertechnologies.com Investor Relations: Coal Harbor Communications, Suite 900 - 555 Burrard

Street, Vancouver, BC V7X 1M8, - info@coal-harbor.com

Tel (604) 662-4505 Fax: (604) 662-4547 Toll-free: 1+ (877) 642-6200 More Information on Empower Technologies: http://www.empowertechnologies.com LinuxDA(TM) O/S Sales Enquiries: sales@linuxda.com or

Tel (425) 881-0909

Paul Leung

Chairman, President and CEO

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