PC design branches out

A DUBLIN graduate scooped a national design award yesterday for creating a computer shaped like a tree.

Laura Cauldwell, 22, from Knocklyon, won first prize of €2,000 in the Dyson Student Design Award for her creation entitled Cultivate — the Sustainable Living Computer.

The branches on the tree hold the mouse, speakers, the memory bank, the central processor, the battery and an ambient light.