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Industrial Design Winners Announced
prostoalex writes "Every year Industrial Design Excellence Awards try to pick the products, whose usability, interface and design qualities are unmatched by rivals. 130 winners are announced in 12 distinct categories. Of special interest are Computer Equipment (congratulations, Samsung, Apple, Logitech and HP) and Consumer Products (Apple, Nokia and others)." (Earlier this month, we posted about Apple's selection of winners; there are quite a few others worth looking at, though.)
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I have to say I'm glad to see the Zodiac on that list winning at least the bronze. I got mine last week and have been continually impressed with just how smooth the "fit and finish" have been. Aside from a small problem with a bend in the case near the sync port, the Zodiac is a great piece of electronics. Now, if they can only work out a better solution for the stylus, integrate a latch to the flipcover and make it firm (like the Newton 2x00, perhaps) and see what can be worked out with the somewhat tricky sync port connection, it'd be close to perfect.
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A great example of what you're talking about is found in "Cradle to Cradle" by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. I heard a CBC radio broadcast last week in my car that had Michael Braungart on it and it was fascinating. He wants to see products go from being made to returning to raw components efficiently. I might add, this guy isn't a typical Enviro-nut TM. He's actually quite intelligent and pretty far from the fringe, from what I could tell when I heard him on the CBC. The book Cradle to Cradle was also reviewed on Slashdot, with a critical 10/10 rating.
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The problem is that they're overpriced and unreliable. Seriously, every single person I know who owns one (myself included) has had it break down on more than one occaision.
Compare this to the good old Hoover we had for no less than 15 years and is still going strong.
The new iPod didn't win anything, yes, but I assume that the grandparent was talking about the iPod Mini, which did win Gold in the Consumer Products division