Sydney Pushes the Limits of Intel Ultrabook Race Challengers
The urban jungle called Sydney was the next stop for Intel's Ultrabook Race which further underscores the power of social networking anywhere, anytime.
The four challengers are influential social networking celebrities that have so far moved the upper echelons of Twitter for gaining more than 50,000 followers.
The Intel Ultrabook Race involves more than just cunning, swiftness and skill the challengers must have some good social networking influence to get ahead of the others.
In this race, the celebrities tapped their Twitter followers for help using the Intel Ultrabook. Indonesia's Daniel Mananta, a VJ and host of the popular Indonesian Idol, had more than 1.5 million Twitter followers.
In the last leg of the two-city race, the challengers were paired off because of the difficult tasks and the extent of the places they need to cover throughout Sydney. The various landmarks in Sydney that took them to the outskirts of the city needed the power of two.
Anusha had been paired with Brazilian tech-savvy, Leon Martins, while Daniel from Indonesia worked side-by-side with American Mark Watson.
"Running around, scampering for clues and getting connected to the Internet had all been made easy with the use of the Intel Ultrabook," confides contender Anusha Dandekar, known as the VJ/host of India's MTV House of Style.
She says that no one could really be prepared for the said race, but the presence of their Intel Ultrabook allowed them to finish the race and still have fun.
The challenger from Brazil, Leon Martins (@CdnLeon on Twitter) could not hide his amazement with the flexibility of the Intel Ultrabook, which they use to take clear photos of clues and even draw to get by the streets of Moscow and Sydney.
Taking home a $10,000 prize was just the bonus for the challengers, the experiences of travelling to new cities and pushing themselves beyond their limits had been the best out of this competition, shares American American Mark Watson (@SoldierKnowBest on Twitter).