Allied Electronics Presents Gadget Freak of the Year Award
March 18 2014 - 10:06AM
Allied Electronics, a trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:
ECM), was pleased to present the prestigious Gadget Freak of the
Year award to Andrew Morris at the Golden Mousetrap Awards
Ceremony, held as part of the Pacific Design and Manufacturing Show
in Anaheim, California on February 11, 2104. Allied has been the
exclusive sponsor of the UBM/Design News monthly Gadget Freak
contest for over a decade. Morris's invention, titled "A Gadget's
Call for Assistance," is a device that translates a stroke
patient's groan into an audible signal, alerting on-site aides that
help is required. The underlying principle is based on a
30-year-old answering machine that could listen for gaps and brief
interruptions in sound in order to differentiate between a dial
tone and a human voice. "I designed this gadget because a woman had
been referred to me whose husband had been paralyzed by a stroke,"
Morris said, "and was unable to call for help in an easily audible
manner. This made it difficult for his live-in caregiver to get a
good night's sleep, as she had to sleep with 'one ear open.' This
device solved her problem." "What I love about Andrew's gadget,
aside from the ultimate potential to really help people when they
need it most, is the evolution of inspiration that lead to the
final design," said Gabriel Reichmann, Allied's Customer Marketing
Manager and the presenter of the award. "There is something almost
profound in the fact that only when he stopped to hear the silence,
could he finally find the victim's voice. It's these unexpected,
almost counterintuitive, discoveries that make technology such an
exciting field in which to participate." Design News holds a
monthly Gadget Freak contest in each issue of their magazine.
Winners of the monthly contest receive a $500 award. For the first
time this year, the twelve winners went head-to-head in six rounds
of semifinal competition, with four gadgets in each round. Readers
voted on each round, with Morris's entry taking the top prize. "In
my opinion, my gadget is not necessarily any better than any of the
other gadgets, from a technical standpoint," Morris told Design
News. "I think it won because it helps a paralyzed man. Your votes
have shown that toys are cool, but it's really about helping other
people. That's the coolest thing of all."
About Allied
Electronics
Allied Electronics is a small order, high service level
distributor of industrial automation and electronic components with
48 sales offices serving the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
With more than three million products online and 115,000 products
featured in the Allied Catalog, engineers and purchasers often look
to Allied for a broad range of product solutions from over 300
world-class suppliers. Allied Electronics and RS Components
are the trading brands of Electrocomponents plc (LSE: ECM), the
world's leading high service distributor of electronics and
maintenance products headquartered in Oxford, England.
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RS Components
RS Components and Allied Electronics are the trading brands of
Electrocomponents plc, the world's leading high service distributor
of electronics and maintenance products. With operations in 32
countries, RS offers more than 550,000 products through the
Internet, catalogues and at trade counters to over one million
customers, shipping around 44,000 parcels a day. Products are
sourced from 2,500 leading suppliers and include electronics,
automation and control, test and measurement, electrical and
mechanical components.
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