UltraWide Festival: Could You Use Another $10,000 in Desktop Gear?

Sponsored Message: Pitch Your Dream Set-Up for a Chance to Win a 10 Grand Tech Sponsorship and a New LG UltraWide Display

If you're an independent content creator, odds are you know exactly what you'd like to do to upgrade your workstation. A faster storage array, a more powerful graphics card, or a higher quality display can all make a big difference when you're trying to be creative. With its new UltraWide Festival, LG is giving users a chance to pitch their "dream setup" — and three winners will get $10,000 to spend on creative technology, plus the latest LG UltraWide Monitor (model number 34UC87C).

Entering is easy. Just make a video or take a picture showing your current set-up, then explain what kind of upgrades you'd make if you had an extra 10 grand to spend. Submit your entry at the official website with a YouTube or social networking link. That's it. Be creative: 30 semifinalists will be invited to review the LG UltraWide Curved Monitor, and three winners will be selected to receive $10,000 each to buy the devices they need to achieve their dreams. Check out the full rules at www.ultrawidefestival.com.

What's all this about a curved monitor? Dell's 34-inch ultrawide monitor is a 21:9 beast that boosts productivity by giving you more screen real estate to play with (go ahead — spread out your NLE from corner to corner and arrange the workspace just the way you like it) or giving you more space to have applications open side by side. As a bonus, in case you're just relaxing with a flick, movies shot in the wide 2.35:1 "scope" aspect ratio fill this screen completely with no cropping and no black bars.

Give it a shot, You've got nothing to lose … except some of your old technology.