Withings has been crowned Overall Wearable Winner at the Wearables 2015 awards last night. Sponsored by IBM, The Wearables are the leading awards in the wearables market. Now in their second year, the eight category winners were unveiled at the Wearable Technology Show, the world’s biggest dedicated wearables event.
Withings – the creator of smart health devices – left with two gongs: Best Consumer Product and Overall Wearable Winner. Medical technology company Hocoma also faired well, winning Best App and taking the runner’s up place for Best Medical Wearable and coming third in the battle for Overall Wearable Winner.
The Best Innovation Award was presented to Cambridge Consultants. For 50 years, the company has led the way in innovative product development and works with many of the world’s leading blue chips.
Best Medical Wearable was presented to Biovotion, a Swiss-based medical device company providing solutions for continuous, non-invasive physiological monitoring. Daqri – renowned for being the world’s leading augmented reality developer – unsurprisingly took home the award for best AR company. Daqri was also runner up in the Best Innovation category.
The winner of the Best Start-Up Business Award, which was decided at the Wearable Technology Show this afternoon in a fierce Dragon’s Den-style battle, is Elvie. Runners up were Atlas Wearables and Sports Performance Tracking. The shortlist featured Mosaikx, Gamar, Elvie, Active In Time, Ambiotex, Octagon Studio, Sports Performance Tracking, Augmented Pixels, Beast Technologies, Polar OLED, Atlas Wearables, Practech, PitPat Pets and Team Turquoise.
And finally, the Crunchwear Editor’s Choice Award was awarded to the Samsung Gear VR, with LG Moto 360 lifting the runner’s up prize and the Misfit Swarovski coming in a close third.
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This year’s winners of the Wearables Awards:
Best App Winner – Hocoma Runner Up – SPT Third – Atlas Wearables
Best AR Company Winner- Daqri Runner Up – Zappar Third – Qualcomm
Best Consumer Product Winner – Withings Runner Up – Atlas Wearables Third – Hocoma
Best Innovation Winner – Cambridge Consultants Runner Up – Daqri Third – Biovotion
Best Medical Wearable Winner – Biovotion Runner Up – Hocoma Third – Aseptika
Overall Wearable Winner Winner – Withings Runner Up – Cambridge Consultants Third – Hocoma
Best Start-Up Business Elvie Atlas Wearables Sports Performance Tracking
Crunchwear Editor’s Award Winner – Samsung Gear VR Runner Up – LG Moto 360 Third – Misfit Swarovski
“The Wearables Awards find and recognise those companies with the best – and most improved – product or service offering in the past 12 months,†said John Weir, COO, Evolve, organisers of the Wearable Technology Show.
“In addition to shining a light on the best products, they also reward the best wearable businesses, recognising those that have offered the highest level of innovation, performance and service over the past year. The level of this year’s entrants was outstanding. It was a hard fought battle and our winners really are the crème de la crème of the wearables industry.â€Â
2015 is the second year of the Wearables Awards. The shortlist can be found here http://www.wearabletechnologyshow.net/awards and the judging panel included:
Anastasia Emmanuel, Director UK Technology & Design, Indiegogo Doug Ealey, Partner and European Patent Attorney, D Young & Co Nick Hunn, Founder & CEO, Wifore Ken Blakeslee, Chairman, WebMobility Ventures Saverio Romeo , Principal Analyst, Beecham Research Gareth Mackown, Mobile Lead for Financial Services, IBM Interactive Experience Europe
