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German manufacturer Siedle has taken away prizes in three important design competitions for its new in-house telephones. Within a few weeks, it won the red dot design award, the iF product design award, and the Innovation and Design Award at the Milan LivinLuce-EnerMotive trade fair.

In two of the competitions, the Siedle telephones made it among the elite of the prize-winners: in the red dot design award, they received the rating “best of the best”, while at LivinLuce they made it to the “Top Selection Design”. These honours are reserved for supreme products, like the Executone phone with a design that the experts on the jury not only regard as inspired but also as pointing the way to the future.

Space is vast, but none of us knew exactly how much existed outside our solar system till this year. And now astronomers have discovered 28 new planets outside of our solar system, increasing to 236 the number of known exoplanets, revealing that planets can exist around a broad spectrum of stellar types, from tiny, dim stars to giants.

“We added 12 percent to the total in the last year, and we’re very proud of that,” said one of the study-team members, Jason Wright of the University of California at Berkeley. “This provides new planetary systems so that we can study their properties as an ensemble.”

Space is vast, but none of us knew exactly how much existed outside our solar system till this year. And now astronomers have discovered 28 new planets outside of our solar system, increasing to 236 the number of known exoplanets, revealing that planets can exist around a broad spectrum of stellar types, from tiny, dim stars to giants.

“We added 12 percent to the total in the last year, and we’re very proud of that,” said one of the study-team members, Jason Wright of the University of California at Berkeley. “This provides new planetary systems so that we can study their properties as an ensemble.”