Apple has won a best gadget award
for its iPad, beating the Amazon Kindle and Sky 3D to two titles.
The iPad was crowned Gadget of the
Year and Readers’ Gadget of the Year in the 2010 Stuff Gadget Awards.
“The iPad’s success was by no
means pre-ordained. It’s expensive and functionally limited,” Stuff
magazine editor and judge Fraser Macdonald said.
“But it is also quite gloriously
indispensable and only making itself more so with the increasing number of apps
and accessories. To see it is to want it, and that’s why it’s our gadget of the
year.”
Microsoft’s motion-sensor gaming
system Xbox Kinect won readers’ votes for Innovation of the Year.
The annual awards recognise the
best consumer technology released in the past year and are decided by expert
judges and readers.
Apple’s iPhone4 won Phone of the
Year, and the compact hybrid electric Honda CR-Z car took the Eco Gadget title.
“Say what you will about the
karma-cancelling effects of buying any new car, the Honda CR-Z is the first
truly desirable, affordable hybrid,” said Mr Macdonald.
“It looks ace, goes fast,
sends a positive message and gets an award.”
In two new categories, the Web App
of the Year title went to film library LoveFilm, while personal fitness trainer
MiCoach won Mobile App of the Year.
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