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"Conde´ Nast Traveller", Innovation & Design Award 2010
Communications Technology Category
ORCA Global Trading have great pleasure in announcing that the POWERSTRAP has been short listed for an award at the 4th Annual Conde´Nast Traveller Innovation & Design Awards, in association with Marriott Hotels & Resorts.
This is an amazing achievement for both ORCA and POWERSTRAP to be recognised at such an early stage of the products life for such a coveted award. ORCA directors attended the prestigious event on Monday 10th May 2010 to see how the POWERSTRAP would fair against the fierce competition in its category such as I-Pad designed by Apple, Folding Plug designed by RCA graduate Min-Kyu Choi, Giorgio Armani Samsung Smartphone, Slingbox designed in house, Medscape phone app, Nexus One designed by HTC and many more.
This years judging panel comprised of Sir Nicholas Serota Director of TATE, internationally acclaimed Heston Blumenthal, co-founder of Lastminute.com Brent Hoberman, renowned food lover and TV presenter Lloyd Grossman, Chris Goodall Principal Curator of Technology at London’s Science Museum and many others.
The winner of the Communications Technology Category as expected was none other than the infamous I-Pad by Apple that was released earlier this year. Apple also walked away with the OVERALL WINNERS Award on the night which showed their prowess in being at the forefront of the Design and Innovation Sector. This was a very proud and memorable day for both ORCA and POWERSTRAP to be acknowledged amongst these great companies and enforced our company ethos “The first for Innovative Technology”
A company Spokesman said, “ This is a great accolade to ORCA and helps to ehance our stance as a truly Innovative company and to just be here with th elike of Apple, HTC is a real commendation to ORCA, we plan to be back here again next year with even more creative and ground braking products so watch this space..”
ORCA Global Trading Limited made its first appearance at the Gadget Show Live this year at the NEC in Birmingham on Stand G24a.
The public response and trade feedback on the ORCA products was phenomenal, one of the main products that was drawing in the crowd was the fantastic Powerstrap that was featured a week earlier and reviewed by Jason Bradbury and Suzi Perry on the Gadget Show 9pm, Channel 5 on 29th March 2010.
Jason loved the Powerstrap and commented on its amazing battery life and how easy and simple it was to change connectors and charge different portable devices.
iPhone users were simply astonished to find such a compact and well thought out dedicated charger for their mobile phone. They were also surprised to find that the Power Dock adds well thought out features that truly benefit daily use, including an upgraded loudspeaker and LED light. Add this to the simplicity of operation and the fact that no additional cables are required for the charger, and you have one of the easiest to use and most beneficial add on's ever to become available for this popular mobile phone.
The Power Reserve hit the spot for those wishing to have a highly portable and simple charging device for those important times when the battery of your mobile phone or games player gives up the ghost. The Power Reserve was praised for it's great price, sleek, colourful and modern design and simple operation.
BioVault takes the security of your stored data very seriously, so seriously in fact that once registered by the owner via fingerprint recognition (biometrics), the data cannot be retrieved by anyone else, and we mean anyone! Visitors were amazed by the credit card size of this advanced product and the automated menu system which includes language detection for whatever part of the world you reside.
An ORCA spokesperson said:
“The first Gadget Show Live event for Orca Global Trading Ltd was an astounding success with volume sales and critical appraise from it's range of new technologically advanced products and state of the art designs.
We knew the innovative products that ORCA had to offer would create a buzz at the show but nothing could quite prepare us for the overwhelming response from the public. Sylish, innovative, amazing flexibility, clever, quirky and great value were just some of the comments being leveled at the ORCA patented designs.
This generated incredible interest and sales from the trade, end users and visitors from abroad, together making ORCAs first Gadget Show experience a real success story in every way. We can’t wait until next year where hopefully ORCA will be in a position to really steal the show and amaze the public with the exciting products and designs it has in the pipe line coming later this year so it really is a case of watch this space… ”