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Indian wins $50,000 in PC design contest
He called his design, "sChOOL Pak": a `cool' back-pack personal computer for school kids and it has just netted him a cool $50,000 that's over Rs. 22.5 lakhs as the winner of the Chairman's Award at the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas on Thursday; the Chairman, (is Microsoft's Bill Gates) in whose name the company has instituted jointly with the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA), a PC-design contest with four awards for innovative design tailored for the Next Generation Windows operating system-based PC.
And the first winner announced is Lucknow-born, Prashant Chandra, lead industrial designer with the Gurgaon-based Telserra India Pvt Ltd, a technology services provider headquartered in the U.S. Mr. Chandra's design a smart PC aimed at appealing to the young, includes two screens, one a Tablet-PC like writeable surface and another, a traditional screen for reading text. Encased in a `hip' rubber casing and equipped with straps for use as a backpack, the sChOOL Pak has slots where lightweight digital cards containing textbook material can be slotted in.
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