In a significant milestone for AI innovation, Google’s Gemini Live won Best New Product at the Tom’s Guide Hero Awards 2025. This cutting-edge tool is more than a chatbot—it’s a video-based AI assistant with the capability of understanding documents, images and even the real-world environments surrounding user. Users will interact with Gemini in a relaxed, conversational manner making it an excellent fit for presentations, customer support and productivity workflows.
Foldable Tech and Modular Sustainability Win Big
Among the hardware stars was the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 by Huawei, the winner of a Best Product Design award for the foresight to anticipate demand, and delivery on the promise to consumers of an LE device. Beyond all the design factors, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 is a foldable device, which is significant as foldable continues to have evolved and is an area of smart devices. This award is evidence (not experience) that foldable devices are no longer gimmicks, but rather design formats that efficiently and strategically connect to consumers needs today and into the future.
Anthropic’s Claude and the Rise of Responsible AI
Anthropic, the organization behind the AI assistant Claude, won Best Company. Claude aims for alignment, transparency, and safety—all important components for industries being transformed by AI. Anthropic Note offers a way for AI tools to consciously work within an ethical framework, take care to do no harm, and manage user trust. In an age when AI can impact millions of lives, their intentionality regarding the ideal way to develop AI is a rising industry standard. And our winners collectively embody one of the most significant trends: technology’s future is not only about performance but about intentional design, responsible intelligence, and sustainability. click here for the source
