Winner Innovation of the Year
OnLive
Guide price: £6.99 /month
The day OnLive was announced, we put all of our consoles and gaming PCs into a truck, drove it down to the coast and threw them into the sea. We’ve since decided that this might have been a trifle premature (and expensive), but it seems you agree with our impulse. So many of you would like to see the cloud gaming service give the Xbox 360 and PS3 a smack in the disc drives that you voted it Innovation of the Year – and it’s not hard to see why. The latest games are delivered to your Mac, PC, TV or, soon, tablet without the need for a rip-snorting processor or beefy graphics card: all the grunt work is done behind the scenes, where OnLive’s servers crunch the numbers and pipe the resulting video feed to your home.
Highly commended
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Apple Smart Cover
Of course, you don’t need a network of powerful servers, a clever system of apps and some swanky controllers to impress us – a flappy magnetic cover will also do, if it’s stuck to the right gadget.
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Fujifilm Hybrid Viewfinder
This astonishing optical/electronic window furnishes Fuji’s X100 with similar shooting data to a DSLR.
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DigiTech iPB-10
Does DigiTech’s iPad-docking guitar effects board signal the end for the humble stomp box?
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Misa Kitara
This digital guitar has no strings, a multi-touch screen and some bonkers effects.
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Google+ Circles
The Big G’s social network recognises that all our acquaintances were not created equal.
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Google Chrome OS
The search behemoth’s laptop OS is a leap into the future, but what do you do where you’ve no internet connection? Not a lot.
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LG Optimus 3D
If someone had told us in 2001 that we’d have glasses-free 3D computer-phones within a decade… well, that’d have ruined the surprise.
