HyperX Girl Design Contest

Kingston Technology Company, Inc. media release says an Australian, Adam Potter, has won the grand prize in its recently held HyperX Girl contest. Potter bested others in the Amateur Group category for his original design of a woman with a cyborg arm titled “Upgrade.”

Potter, from the city of Adelaide, is a printed circuit board designer/technician and occasionally works on software and promotional renders for customers. His "Upgrade" design was showcased in Computex technology and electronics tradeshow in Taiwan on June 3-7, 2008.

Kingston’s HyperX Girl contest is a world-wide competition for amateur and professional designers to create the perfect character model for HyperX memory modules with total prizes reaching US$19,000. Judging the designers' works was done through a panel of Kingston management combined with an online voting system carried out from May 5th to 20th, 2008.
 

Kingston Technology Company, Inc., founded in 1987 by John Tu and David Sun, is the world’s independent memory leader. Starting as a company with a single product offering, the Single In-Line Memory Module (SIMM), for which it received a patent in 1988, it also introduced DataTraveler® and DataPak™ (1994), the ValueRAM® (1999), new DataTraveler Elite USB drives (2004), and the Fully-Buffered Dimms (FBDIMMs) (2006) which broke the 16GB barrier.  Kingston® now produces more than 2,000 memory products that support nearly every device that uses memory.
 
For more information on the contest, visit http://www.hyperxgirl.com
For more detailed information on Kingston HyperX series products, visit www.kingston.com/anz