Do You Wanna Learn? Updates! Do you wanna know more about Touch? Check out these videos: TouchSmart Basics TouchSmart Tutorials - Music, Video, Stories/Ads Yeah… O Yeah… We have a winner here! Woo Hoo! We’ve got a winner here!!! The winning comment as selected by the good folks at HP is: It’ll be awesome and a fantasy come true! Why do I say that? I’ve always fancied using the computer without my mouse and using my fingers only, just like HP’s adverts where someone moves stuff on the computer around using their hands/fingers! Further more, the HP TouchSmart is black and sleek! I’m a sucker for sleek and shiny stuff. Photoshop on the HP TouchSmart would be like painting on a huge blank piece of paper using my bare hands with sloppy paint, ‘cept that it’ll be much cleaner, more exciting and just imagine what I can draw! No more crooked lines in attempt to draw straight lines using the mouse Oooh I’m quivering with excitement as I imagine myself using the HP TouchSmart~~ I can finally touch and spread my fingerprints on the screen on purpose, hee hee. Okay besides drawing and photoshop, gaming would be different too, for me. Since one of my favourite games is Bejewelled & Checkers (MSN games are fun okay!), I can chuck my mouse one side for this game and use my awesome fingers to point and click, oops, I meant tap on the screen to play. Ah, bliss. Wow. Imagine all the kinds of fun I’ll have if I own the HP TouchSmart. I’ll promise to draw the cartoon version of you using my fingers. And also take a picture of myself and put those clocks on my eyes. It’s a new fashion statement! Computer aside, the HP TouchScreen as a tv would really blow my mind away and stick my bum on my chair. Computer + TV = me and my happy mum. My mum’s computer iliterate but with the HP TouchScreen, I think my mum will be excited to learn how to use the computer properly. It’ll be much easier to teach her (and interactive too), considering the fact that I can just point on the screen and tell her what the icons are for, etc. My mum gets really excited when she learns that we can do lots of fun and interesting things on a computer. Then after that, we can both watch tv & dvds on it. Mum & daughter bonding with the help of technology…! xD This comment was submitted by the ultra-lucky reader (who is also a blogger), ‘Jurlique aka Fudgey’, who posted it on Rinaz’s (Marina Noordin) blog…they both get to win the ultra sexy, smart and sleek HP TouchSmart IQ500 each! (If you want to play Bejewelled or the Mahjong game on the HP TouchSmart… you know who to look for *wink*) Hope you guys had as much fun as us in this -  we were really impressed with the many good entries submitted and also were totally entertained by the tongue-in-cheek ones! Jael and Melvin Do You Wanna Win! … Yeah O Yeah! Okay TouchSmarties out there… here’s a chance to lay your hands on the ever-so-sexy, ever-so-touchy HP TouchSmart IQ500 PC. Last week, we invited some blogger friends in Singapore to a TouchSmart preview party – to get a glimpse of the IQ500 before it reaches the stores; and to share the experience with their readers. From today onwards, these friends will be able to run a simple contest on their blogs… They will ask their blog readers “What will life be like with HP TouchSmart?“; and encourage readers to respond with ideas on creative, innovative, productive or interesting ways to use the HP TouchSmart IQ500 PC. If there are repeated/very similar comments on more than one blog, the first one will be selected (that’s why we ask for all the comments to be timestamped). The good folks at HP will select what they feel to be the best, most interesting and innovative comment, and… … the ‘commenter’ and the blogger will each get to TOUCH and OWN a HP TouchSmart IQ500! Contest begins… now! … and ends: 00:00, 12 July 2008. Winners will be announced via e-mail and on this blog on 18 July. Stay tuned! Or… stay in Touch! p/s: I’m so tempted to link out to the two bloggers who’ve posted up the contest on their blogs; but to be fair to all the bloggers, I shall not! Do You Wanna Watch? Product Demo with the ‘Do You Wanna Touch’ song: And I Lurveeeee this ad: Event photos can be found here. HP TouchSmart in Singapore! Wow the HP TouchSmart PC Blogger’s Nite event is over and what. a. blast. Last night – exactly 2 weeks after the HP TouchSmart IQ500 was revealed to the world at HP Berlin 2008 – we had a blogger’s preview part in Singapore (where HP’s Asia Pacific headquarters is located). Melvin: Lucky me – I was in Berlin when the latest TouchSmart was unveiled; and it was one heck of a launch! The press attending the event just loved it! But the party we just had yesterday evening was special because this time, I was seeing friends and fellow-bloggers in Singapore test it out for the first time…admidst the ooos and ahhhs. And it’s kinda different (from a huge worldwide launch) in its own way… J Daryl: Little known fact: I worked on the HP TouchSmart PC Blogger’s Nite plan on the first day of my work here at Waggener Edstrom, and it’s fantastic to finally see it materialise, and more importantly, to see that everyone had fun, regardless if they’re bloggers or the HP executives. What I really enjoyed about last night was being in the unique position of being a blogger, yet “working” at the same time. So on one hand I had to make sure everyone was doing okay, at the same time I was happily taking 2353879 pictures with all the bloggers for our fodder pictures. Well it looks like everyone had a great time, and we thought we’d write this post to share our thoughts; and more importantly, link to all the stories that those of us who were there last night has to tell… And there’s more coming your way next week… … so stay in Touch! Melvin & Daryl