myGEKKO has convinced the judges!

In the red dot design award, one of the most renowned international product competitions, myGEKKO has now been awarded an “honourable mention” by the jury with its panel of highly respected experts. This is the recognition that the design experts grant to products with especially refined detail solutions.

 

myGEKKO Slide

The speaking tube between the house and his occupants

In the past, the only technical device inside the house was the heating: bulky, dusty and technically complex. Nowadays, the most recent technical innovations are used to make working- and home environments more and more comfortable and efficient.

But it’s impossible to achieve this goal if technology and occupants go different ways. They have to communicate and know each other.

myGEKKO Slide represents the perfect speaking tube.

It controls the entire building with all his areas: light, heating, access, alarm, air-conditioning, multimedia, etc. – not separately, but considering the house as an indivisible unit.
With myGEKKO, we bring complex home automation out of the basement to put it in the hands of the occupants. The system offers a simple and intuitive handling: the occupants can costumize and modify their myGEKKO whenever they want in order to fit their needs.

Occupants change constantly, and the same happens with their desires and needs. Singles, couples, families, older people - myGEKKO lives and changes with them.
   
myGEKKO makes use of the most recent hardware and software technologies and combines the technical achievements in consumer electronics and lifestyle with the durability of buildings.
The design perfectly reflects this approach. The upright control panel which offers a perfect visibility, the shortcuts and the white glass surface for an elegant and unobtrusive wall installation underline the timeless design of the myGEKKO device.

The technical details, such as the build-in camera behind the glass, the lateral speakers and microphones, the RFID sensors for identification, the capacitive touch technology for the slide- and touch functions as well as the coloured elements for alarm and status displaying create the best conditions for speaking, seeing, hearing, displaying, ...

    
The winning products in the red dot design museum
You can experience myGEKKO first hand: together with the other prize-winning products, myGEKKO will be on display from 5 July to 1 August 2011 in the exhibition “Design on stage – winners red dot award: product design 2011” in the red dot design museum at the world heritage site of the Zeche Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen.