2010's Best Designed Products

The winners of the 2010 International Design Excellence Awards can help you ride the waves, grill a burger, catch varmints, and save the earth.

The minutes are ticking down, and a fleet of town cars idle outside the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, ready to leave for the airport. Inside the building, though, the 18 design luminaries serving as jurors of the 2010 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) -- the field's top honors -- are unmoved. Over the previous 48 hours, they have blazed through a pool of 1,900 entries from 28 countries, choosing 38 gold-medal winners. And now they are stuck, deadlocked over the final selection for Best in Show.