Switched On: The Switchies 2010

It is that special moment of post-holiday sales year and exaggeration of pre-CES that presents an opportunity to discuss some of the year's most innovative devices. Switched On is proud to present contribution congratulates software improves the technology of a humanity Awards, also known as the Switchies. This year marks the fifth annual Switchies decided based on a rigorous review of the opinion of me and do not reflect opinion of Engadget or its publishers. For this last honor nominees will have to win a prize from Engadget. Let's roll the carpet red, below.

The "You Say ' Big iPod Touch' Like it's a Bad Thing" and product of the year goes to Apple iPad. In what can only be explained as a result of the determination to return to the fold of being excluded from the Switchies last year, Apple snubbed the netbook and tablet PC by feel the basic platform that has worked so well for their handhelds. In the process, brought from changes in the operating system to support richer interaction of PPP. A case of extension of the platform, the iPad textbooks is now in the grid of a representative sample of PC, CE and phone that they want to grab a piece of a class that has put its own spin video, gaming, reading, and Web browsing device manufacturers.

"Sharp, categories blur screens" award for best new E-Reader is going to Barnes & Noble Nook Color. While Amazon Kindle has opted to low land with a focused book reading experience, this "Tablet reader" called noble & Barnes, represents the future of the category where the text will meld with color photos and videos. Now noble & Barnes should improve responsiveness of your device and expands platform support.

The "Easy Call To Make" best new smartphone prize goes to Sprint Epic 4 g. mix a large and beautiful screen with a keyboard out of the slide and WiMAX data speeds made this the most prominent of the Galaxy S. finalists smartphones in other companies include X Droid, iPhone 4 and T-Mobile G2.

The "can 'T Touch This" Award for Best New Smartphone Operating System going to iOS 4.2. It was not so iOS iPhone 4 brought operating system features that had not seen in other operating systems. Is that his greatest story - multitasking - was implemented in a way that almost everything that gives users wanted to retain some of the best battery life in the industry. Most improves Smartphone OS Awards go to webOS 2.0 and Windows 7 phone.

"Worthy of note" the award for best new Notepad team goes to Acer TimelineX series to provide the exceptional duration of battery in a slim and elegant format. Finalists include the MacBook Air and HP, including 3D power capable of 17 envy envy line.

The prize of "Leave the buttons in shirts" for the best new human computer interaction will Kinect Microsoft for Xbox 360. Move from Sony PlayStation can provide greater flexibility for a wider range of play the game, but captured the imagination and has potential in a wide range of devices to move forward while hackers have already begun to try Kinect approach. "Guess We Just Click" award for best new PC input device goes to Microsoft's touch enabled in the MSE Archway, strip with extensive Apple Mighty Trackpad as a finalist.

The "Set-Top Box That Rocks" award Best New TV Set Extension Box goes Live WDTV, a small and versatile packaged half a terabyte of storage in an accessible UI that reveals a wide variety of features central hub. Honorable mentions go to the small and affordable Roku XD/S and low profile, the best combination of offset time and lugar-cambio monsoon multimedia Vulkano yet.

"Please Be EVIL" the award for best new hybrid Imaging product line of Sony, which sensor performance will combine a full APS-C in a back slim and tilting LCD screen with HD, while the award of "Poetry in motion" video capture capabilities better compact camcorder goes to the Kodak PlaySport to do 1080p video of a chase of the swimming pool.

The "fourth" Best New Home Internet Appliance award prize goes to the frame image of impulses from Kodak, which allows sharing photos online easy and affordable. The runner-up includes Sony Dash recently reduced in price, driven by the Chumby

The "what is a lens among friends?" prize for Bluetooth headsets will again better the Looxcie. Today may be little more than a novelty, but as it improves the quality, Looxcie could become a valuable tool for recording lectures and presentations. Finalists will attend SoundID 510 enhanced enforcement and Q2 BlueAnt speech recognition.

"More than a single" best new printer prize goes to the printer with HP envy. Supports ePrint architectures and HP wireless printing of Apple's AirPrint symbolizes not only the future of printing without a driver, accessible remotely, but is also one of the most elegant printers lounge geared to hit the market from Samsung ML-1630. Not only that, but enlargement and back output tray support definitely created a factor of rare wow printers.

And finally, the "2 Cool Be sale 4" Prize to the best new vaporware ever send goes to the mail. Hardware, slick, user interface design and the only novel utility this product did something he could have high appeal, but perhaps not a large enough user as basis for Microsoft's interest. Clearly, however, other companies also believe that two screens are better than one, and 2011 will be to see progress on devices such as Tablet Kno and Acer Iconia. The runner-up was fellow BlackBerry clock of InPulse Allerta.

Ross Rubin is executive director of industry technology consumption in market research and analysis firm NPD Group. Views expressed in Switched On are their own.

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