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The winners of Bill Gates' annual PC design contest have created some strange and beautiful objects that you might never guess are computers.
See our slideshow of the winning designs here.
There's also a cute video here.
The competition was open to Windows-based PC designs, although
Microsoft didn't specify what version of Windows, a Microsoft spokeswoman explains. She also points out that the winners are merely prototypes at this point. "These computers are futuristic hardware designs; they are not in market and aren't going to be in the near future."
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Slide show: PC design contest winners
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Gates announced the five winners of Microsoft's Next-Gen PC Design Competition Monday at the 2007 Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Los Angeles. The winners of this year's contest stretch the keyboard-monitor-tower paradigm in ways you may not have imagined possible.
The 349 designs in this year's competition were judged for their innovation, user experience and interaction, aesthetics, use of new technologies and eco-friendliness.
A panel of 10 jurors, all internationally renowned industrial designers, chose the three Judges Awards winners from 34 finalists. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and his advisors selected the Chairman's Award. The Public Choice Award was chosen online by visitors to the competition Web site.
Microsoft developed the contest in 2005 as a way of connecting with the design community and to encourage it to think about more innovative PC designs. The competition is held in collaboration with the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID).
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