PEOPLE won't have to worry about where they left their car keys in the future if six-year-old Sarah Harris has anything to do with it.

The Pinehurst Infant School pupil has designed a magic car that opens and starts by recognising the driver's handprint.

And the driver and their passengers can go anywhere in the world, all at the touch of a special button.

The design is part of a national competition being run by Tesco to celebrate the 15th year of its Computers For Schools voucher scheme.

To congratulate her on her winning design for Swindon, staff at the Ocotal Way store held a reception for her and nine of her classmates.

Sarah, whose favourite subject is maths, said: "I would like to have a magic car when I'm older.

"I would get it to go to Spain because it's sunny and I've not been before. I think in the future there will be lots of robots."

More than 80 schools in the Swindon area were invited to take part.

Pupils had to design a piece of technology that they thought would be around in the year 2020.

And they had lots of ideas.

From Ani-bots shaped like birds, which act as personal organisers, to flip phones that turn into compasses so you can find your way home, the children involved let their imaginations run wild.

Two of the more unusual designs were a magic talking heated rainbow, which tells you when your food is ready and a ball that, when you bounce it a certain number of times, turns into a range of vehicles, from a car to a ferry.

And the job of judging the entries and choosing the winner fell to Donna Borthwick and Lorraine Hammond, who both work at the store.

"We had a lot of entries to look through and choosing a winner was really difficult," said Lorraine.

"There were a lot of robots and spaceships, but Sarah's idea was really futuristic as it is a handprint that starts the car."

At the end of their visit, all the children received a goodie bag filled with treats.

Sarah's winning entry has now been put forward to the regional judging panel, and she is in with the chance of winning herself a digital camera and a computer for her school.

If she wins the regional heat she will then face competition from the other regional winners across the country and be in with a chance of winning a range of goodies from the supermarket's Computers For Schools catalogue.