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Redmond (WA) - Napkin sketches on lunch tables have given industrial design student Avery Holleman the idea to come up with a Napkin PC concept - a system that focuses on collaboration and data sharing within its own network. The idea has won this year’s Microsoft Next-Gen PC Design Competition and $20,000 in prize money.

Most of us are very familiar with the concept of napkin sketches and in a way, it is actually somewhat surprising no one has ever thought about a computer that takes advantage of this usage scenario. Avery Holleman has and developed a PC design that, at least in our opinion, could make a very useful tool on conference tables.
The Napkin PC design closely resembles a Napkin holder, combining multiple touchscreen devices within a collaborative network. Digital pens allow users to draw on these touchscreens just like they would on a napkin.
"I had an idea about a system where the user would be able to interact with any number of interfaces connected to the same network, Holleman said. "I felt I had good ideas. But they needed a package."
While contemplating a square he’d drawn out as the display for his device, the form it should take suddenly took shape before his eyes. "I realized it looked like a napkin."
The idea struck a chord with the judges of the competition and apparently with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, which landed Holleman the first prize as well as the Chairman’s Award and $20,000 in cash.
The second prize and $5000 went to the Withus drawing pad, the third prize and Public Choice Award to the Backpacker’s Diary, which is imagined to be a digital book for travelers, with different pages that offer different functions such as media recording, solar recharging and electric light illuminant.


Source : Tom's Hardware US
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Or just use napkins...I get my napkins with 10 base t at Sam's club.
One trick pony much? This is not the future of computing.
not impressed.
Why can't they hold a competition where people have to design things that are actually possible?
This should have won the "least practical" award. The reason so many good ideas are drawn up on napkins is because they are a ubiquitous item you can draw on - i.e easy to get wherever you happen to be. If I have to have this computer "just lying around" to draw out my ideas, why not just have a tablet pc "just lying around"?
Both the 2nd and 3rd prize winners were in reality much better than this useless gag item.