India, April 19 -- Eight-year-old Krisha Vaidhya has not only made her banker parents proud by bagging the prestigious award for designing a futuristic chair for Mars under a competition hosted by the acclaimed Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation, but also brought laurels for India too as the youngest participant to be bestowed the honour. As part of the award, she won 3,000 dirham and a visit to a state-of-the-art prototyping lab in Dubai.

Her model of the futuristic chair, fabricated from recyclable household items, has legs that double as a levitation device (with boosters) to keep it afloat in the high gravitational pull of the Mars while manoeuvring in the harsh volcanic Mar's surface. Enconsed in a globe-like module with a pro...