Dell's Experience Design Group took home a 2010 Good Design Award for their Latitude 2100 series, a system of notebooks aimed at the educational (K-12) market. The ruggedized laptops dock and charge up in a sort of IT Cart mothership, 24 laptops to a cart, so that you don't have to deal with a classroom of hellions swinging power bricks around like lassoes.
Another Good Design Award winner that caught our eye was Sony's Bravia NX800 LCD. It's hard to make TV's of today look sexy, given that they're basically just flat rectangles, but we have to say Sony's pulled it off with their minimalist/monolithic aesthetic.
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