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"For the 100th birthday of the Good Housekeeping Seal this year, we opened the Institute for tours on the second Friday of each month. This way you can get a behind-the-scenes look at how we evaluate products for the Seal and for editorial mention in the magazine. Recently, reporters from Time Out New York and the Hartford Courant wrote about their visits.     Other recent guests were the winners of our 2009 VIP (Very Innovative Products) Awards. We evaluate thousands of products at the Research Institute each year, and so it&amp;#039;s always exciting when our product testing experts find new, bold, ingenious breakthroughs-products that solve everyday family problems in a unique way. And, of course, these products aren&amp;#039;t just innovative\u2014they&amp;#039;ve been tested by the Institute experts and proven to work well. We announced our winners in our February 2009 issue, and on February 20th, presented the awards in the Good Housekeeping Dining Room. Our winners included products in the beauty, fashion, fitness, nutrition, automotive, pet, cleaning, technology, safety, and home appliance categories. They were: The Kindle E-Reader from Amazon, Scotch Fur Fighter from 3M, Tide Total Care from Procter &amp;amp;amp; Gamble, the Wii Fit from Nintendo, Custom Creations Foundation from Revlon, Versus Bare Floor Vacuum from Bissell, UConnect Web from Chrysler, the Satellie GPS Messenger from Spot, the Share SD Card from Eye-Fi, Vitamin D Enhanced Portobello Mushrooms from Dole, and our Hall of Fame Award went to Spanx, Original Footless Panyhose. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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