INDEX: Award Finalists 2009

The finalists for INDEX:Award 2009 have been selected by the international INDEX: jury as the best of the best from a record-setting number of nominations -- more than 700 -- from 54 countries.


The finalists, taken as a group, offer unique proof of the wide reach of Design to Improve Life,
in terms of geography, challenges addressed, users and innovation.

 
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WALLBREAKERS

Play category

Wallbreakers is a board game that supports learning and collaborative understanding through simple yet powerful visual metaphors.
WASTE RECOVERING SYSTEM

Community category

The Waste Recovering System is a new a new way of dealing with waste disposal and taking advantage of it through sustainable solutions that can prove to be profitable.
WATER FOR ALL

Community category

Singapore's multi-disciplinary design for a sustainable water supply aims to make the island city-state as nearly self-reliant as possible, through water recycling, rain harvesting, seawater desalination, and catchment augmentation initiatives.
WHALEPOWER TUBERCLE TECHNOLOGY

Community category

WhalePower Tubercle Technology offers retrofitted blades for wind turbines that increase efficiency and performance while
reducing noise.
WOOLWORTHS "Making the Difference Through Design" Program

Community category

Woolworths “Making the Difference Through Design” Program is a project that supports design education in South Africa.
X STING WISH

Work category 

The X Sting Wish is a reconceptualization of a familiar but often intimidating device, the fire extinguisher. The design is mean to be friendlier, more intuitive, easier to operate, and thus able to help the user make more rational decisions. 
X-SYSTEM

Body category

The X-Finger® is the world’s first active-function artificial finger assembly designed specifically for partial finger amputees. The device allows users to regain complete control of the flexion and extension movements of an artificial finger in a self-contained device.  
YELLO STROM

Home category

The intelligent electricity meter transfers domestic power consumption data to the user’s computer, so the user can check online and in real time how much his fridge, his washing machine, or his hi-fi stereo system actually consume (in terms of watts, kWh, and money). Thus, the user has complete cost control and may easily find electricity guzzlers. The customer can control consumption and use electricity more efficiently.
¡GuateAmala!

Community category

¡GuateAmala!, is a vision and multi-year communications strategy designed to create optimism in Guatemala.
 
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