Stefan Gies, a hardware developer with Atecom, a provider of solutions for the transmission of broadcast content over broadband networks, is feeling pretty good today.
He is the winner of the red Chevrolet Corvette given away at the electronica show by component distributor, Digi-Key.
Gies was visiting the Digi-Key stand with five colleagues and says, "A very nice woman asked me if I'd like to win the Corvette." (I'll have to start following this bloke around shows!)
He naturally enough responded in the positive, and had his entrance badge scanned to get him in the draw.
Back at his office on the last day of the show when the draw took place, Gies showed a picture of the Digi-Key Corvette in a trade magazine to colleagues, telling them, "To look at his new car." A statement met with some mirth and mockery, until about half an hour later, Gies's mobile phone rang with the good news.
Unsurprisingly Gies at first thought this was what us Brits like to call a wind-up (joke) by his colleagues. Fortunately he didn't cut off the caller, and eventually was convinced this was a genuine call. "I couldn't believe I was the winner of the car," he said. "My heart pounded with excitement."
Gies who lives in Aachen made the 800-mile round trip to Munich to collect the car along with his wife Stefanie and their two children. It took him five hours to get there and two hours to get home!!! Only kidding Stefan.
"Thanks to all for the wonderful prize," he told Digi-Key.
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