A sampling of Edison Award–winning devices you didn’t know you needed—but soon won’t imagine being able to live without.

FUSION

GOPRO

GOLD MEDAL WINNER

Media, Visual Communications and Entertainment

Capture sterling 360-degree 5.2K video with GoPro’s latest oh-wow device, then play it back as virtual reality or plain old 2D, all controlled from your phone.

 

LIGHT L16 CAMERA

LIGHT

GOLD MEDAL WINNER

Consumer Electronics and Information Technology

A compact DSLR-quality camera that fits in the palm of your hand. Sixteen lenses capture multiple images simultaneously, then create one gorgeous high-resolution image from them.

 

BENJILOCK MINI

BENJILOCK

SILVER MEDAL WINNER

Applied Technology

The world’s first rechargeable padlock with fingerprint recognition. You’ll never have to memorize a tricky combination (or try to remember where you put the damn key) again.

 

QOOCAM STEREO AND 360 CAMERA

KANDAO TECHNOLOGY

SILVER MEDAL WINNER

Consumer Electronics and Information Technology

An affordable virtual-reality camera that uses three lenses to create an array of immersive photos and videos. It’s wee, too—no bigger than a cigar.

 

SIGHTPLUS

GIVEVISION

SILVER MEDAL WINNER

Health and Wellness

The vision-impaired will rejoice over this headset that can be used to magnify objects at both close range and longer distances. It can change contrast and apply custom Instagram-worthy filters to what you’re seeing, too.

 

SLEEP NUMBER 360 SMART BED

SLEEP NUMBER

SILVER MEDAL WINNER

Health and Wellness

Powered by the absolute latest biometric sleep-tracking tech, this smartest of smart beds blends hardware, software and great design to ensure your 40 winks are as good as they can possibly be.

 

FEND HELMET

FEND

BRONZE MEDAL WINNER

Athletics, Sports and Recreation

A foldable bicycle helmet (it collapses to a third of its wearable size) designed for urban commuters for whom a traditional helmet is an annoyingly bulky part of the wardrobe.

 

SITTIGHT

SITTIGHT

BRONZE MEDAL WINNER

Consumer Goods

Transform plopping down at your desk into actual exercise: SitTight subtly uses your body’s inclination to balance to boost core strength, improve posture and keep you alert even at 3 p.m.

 

TRICENTIS TOSCA

TRICENTIS

BRONZE MEDAL WINNER

Innovative Services

As more of the world digitizes, good user experiences have never been more important. Tricentis Tosca automates the testing that makes sure a product’s code is seamless and fully functional.