Macworld UK Awards
A number of weeks ago I had a surprise invitation to the coveted Macworld UK awards. Having managed to sort the logistics at work with great excited I accepted the invite and sorted the onerous task of booking flights.
This year’s awards were held in the Honourable Artillery Company a large castle like building with 6 acres of ground right in the centre of the City of London.
You can see just how great our seats were. We can almost touch the main stage from our seat, it couldn’t have been better.
The evening kicked off with a champagne reception followed by a gala formal, entertainment and of course the main awards ceremony.
It was great to see the brilliant Elgato picking up an award for ‘Best Consumer Product’ for their EyeTV DTT Deluxe device. (Link to our Elgato reviews). The photo below shows one happy Elgato employee brandishing the coveted award.
Other winners :
Apple product of the year
App Store – Apple
Consumer photo product of the year
Pixma IP4600 – Canon
Best pro photo and print imaging
Nikon D3 – Nikon
Best iPod accessory
WINNER – Shure SE210 – Shure
Best iPhone accessory
hf2 Custom-Fit – Etymotic
Consumer audio product
Valve80 – Logic3
Best iPhone/iPod touch application
ConcertVault – Wolfgang’s Vault
Best iPhone/iPod touch game
Zen Bound – Chillingo
Best consumer software
Toast 10 Titanium – Roxio
Consumer hardware product of the year
Eye TV DTT Deluxe – Elgato
Education product of the year
MacSpeech Dictate – MacSpeech
Best professional storage
Data Tank 3.5in – Freecom
Best productivity hardware
Phaser 8560DN – Xerox
Best productivity software
FileMaker Pro 10 – FileMaker Pro 10
Best consumer storage
Drobo 800 – Data Robotics
Professional video product of the year
DeckLink HD Extreme – Blackmagic Design
Best animation and 3D product
Cinema 4D 11 – Maxon
Creative hardware product of the year
Intuos4 – Wacom
Creative design software of the year
Photoshop CS4 – Adobe
Creative web software of the year
Adobe Air – Adobe
For a full list of nominees and winners visit the official awards site.
It was a great night concluding with an after show party where guests were presented with a goody bag including a fantastic rucksack laptop bag and a number of iPod/iPhone accessories.
It was great to meet some of the Macworld staff including Mark Hattersley (Editor in Chief) and Nick Spence in real life. A massive thanks to those who organised for us to be at the awards and who looked after us so well. It was a great night and very much appreciated.
Check out photos from the event here.
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