Apple iPad named gadget of the year

Apple has trumped Amazon and Sky to win a prestigious best gadget accolade with its iPad.

By The Newsroom

Published 12th Nov 2010, 08:48 BST

Updated 12th Nov 2010, 08:48 BST

The iPad beat the Amazon Kindle and Sky 3D to win both Gadget of the Year and Readers' Gadget of the Year in the 2010 Stuff Gadget Awards.

Stuff magazine editor and judge Fraser Macdonald said: "The iPad's success was by no means pre-ordained.

"It's expensive and functionally limited.

"But it is also quite gloriously indispensable and only making itself more so with the increasing number of apps and accessories.

"To see it is to want it, and that's why it's our gadget of the year."

Microsoft's motion-sensor gaming system Xbox Kinect won readers' votes for Innovation of the Year.

The annual awards recognise the best consumer technology released in the past year and are decided by expert judges and readers.