September 25, 2006  |  Imaginestics taps the power of its Unique Shape Search Engine to reshape Global Supplier Search where parts and suppliers can be found using even a doodle as search input

Purdue Research Park, West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A -- Imaginestics, LLC, creator of the world's first online shape search engine, 3D-Seek, debuts its service this week at DEMOfall '06. Using 3D-Seek.com, users can simply doodle (draw freehand sketch) a shape of the desired part/product on the doodle pad or upload a 2D drawing/3D model of a part/product as search input to locate a supplier who produces that part or has the capability to manufacture it. 3D-Seek.com uses its unique shape matching technology to match the input shape with hundreds of thousands of parts that have been made available by participating suppliers to provide search users with an accurate match within seconds. In combination with a powerful ontology knowledge-based text search technology, 3D-Seek's revolutionary shape search engine easily overcomes the challenges faced by text based search engines in dealing with variations in specifications of manufactured parts and products globally.

"Text as a primary search source has significant barriers, such as context, user bias and language. Scouring the millions of irrelevant search results wastes valuable time, leading to frustrations and often duplication of effort. With 3D-Seek.com the ability to communicate what you need through a picture or drawing is literally worth a thousand words," said Nainesh Rathod, CEO of Imaginestics. "Visualization is truly a universal language."

"The ability to find a part by doodling the shape is simply amazing," said Chris Shipley, executive producer of DEMOfall. "Through the shape search engine, 3D-Seek.com solves a fundamental problem for buyers trying to locate parts globally. The volume of global e-commerce today represents a huge opportunity for a company whose solution can make the task of accurately finding suppliers across geographical and language boundaries effortless."

3D-Seek.com offers a supplier a unique platform to market its products to potential buyers. It is free for use for both part/product manufacturers and the search user. Suppliers can upload their parts, catalogs, pictures or identify their manufacturing capabilities in their own secure area under 3D-Seek.com's Supplier Center. 3D-Seek indexes this data and makes it searchable by potential buyers. Suppliers even have the facility to offer their customers the ability to download CAD models directly from their secure area or configure it online and download the configured model to see whether the part meets their requirement.

"Since we have started using 3D-Seek.com to enable our distributors and customers to locate and download the models of our parts/products we have seen a 30% increase in business," said Chris Round, Marketing Manager, QC industries. "This is an innovative and powerful tool for suppliers to get connected with their buyers."

3D-Seek.com has been available to users in a beta for the last six months. To date there have been over 1.4 million hits and 300,000 searches performed, with over 700,000 page views. Currently over 4,600 suppliers and 6,800 users have registered.

Imaginestics will demonstrate its unique shape search engine 3D-Seek at Station #22 at the DEMOfall '06 conference September 25 - 27, 2006. "We are excited about the opportunity to launch 3D-Seek at DEMOfall '06," said Nainesh Rathod. "DEMO is the ideal venue to present 3D-Seek our path-breaking shape search technology to the world and to an audience that would appreciate the value of an innovative search engine technology based on shape."

About Imaginestics
Imaginestics provides an innovative search solution, 3D-Seek, in finding manufactured parts or custom service suppliers globally. Imaginestics also develops decision support solutions such as i-config, 3D-config, i-advisor and i-compare, which offers search users a comprehensive search experience. For more information about Imaginestics, visit http://www.Imaginestics.com

About DEMOfall 2006 The annual DEMO conferences focus on emerging technologies and new products, which are hand-selected from across the spectrum of the technology marketplace. The DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow's cutting-edge technologies, and have served as launch pad events for companies such as Palm, E*Trade, Handspring and U.S. Robotics, helping them secure venture funding, establish critical business relationships and influence early adopters. Each DEMO conference features approximately 70 new companies, products and technologies. For more information about DEMO 2006, please visit http://www.demo.com.