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The HP TouchSmart PC is targeted to a growing bulk of users seeking the simplicity of photo management, pleasant viewing of Free-to-Air broadcasts as well as the latest movies on DVD. It comes with a 22inch HD Ready display with its own stereo speakers. It has a webcam as well as a built-in microphone. To assist with the transition to touch technology, wireless keyboard & mouse is provided as well.

Please leave your comments on what you think your life will be like if you own a HP TouchSmart PC and you may stand to win a HP TouchSmart. Please leave your real email address so I can contact you when you do win it!

Please have a read here, here & here for the various write-ups on the HP TouchSmart PC.

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Yesterday, I went to Forth Gallery to view the a fresh idea from the students of Republic Polytechnic. They have formed a group where they use it as a platform to engage schools with art forms.

Evergreen Primary School has answered their call and collaborated with the production of “CAP-Tivating: Cap-tivating Tiny Hearts” together with SlothStudio.

Using caps as a foundation point, the students use various forms of media, be it stencils, paint even fur-like materials over their caps. Viewed singularly, it would not have had any impact visually. Together, they form a story of excitement, an endeavour of child-like demeanour, untouched by the corruption of life.

I have taken the liberty, with express permission from Forth Gallery as well as the Republic Polytechnic students to capture some of the excitement. See the slideshow that I have attached as proof that the works of primary school students can and do manage to bring out the level of interests, even that of Mrs Tharman, wife of Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam - Singapore’s Minister of Finance.

CAP-tivating tiny heARTS can still be viewed at Forth Gallery.

Start Time:	Thursday, June 26, 2008 at 11:00am
End Time:	Monday, June 30, 2008 at 7:00pm
Location:	Forth Gallery
Street:	69a Pagoda Street
City/Town:	Singapore, Singapore

MAP http://is.gd/H70

Sources:

http://forth.sg

http://captivatingarts.wordpress.com/

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18648619176

http://www.rp.edu.sg/

http://www.rp.sg/courses/technologyarts/index.asp

On the 24th June 2008, Daryl Tay & Melvin Yuan from Waggener Edstrom, hosted a group of bloggers for the unveiling of the HP TouchSmart PC. Waggener Edstrom represents HP Singapore to bring in the bloggers for the social media interaction. Present at the event too are representatives of HP Singapore like Ms tan Hsu Wei, Ms Pamela Cheong, & Ms Chua Hwee Koon. Ms Joan Wong presented the overview of the HP TouchSmart PC while the technical information is presented Mr Daniel & Winston(could not get their business cards).

This unveiling, is a follow-up from Global Launch at Berlin in the beginning of June where several are revolutionary computing device was unveiled.

The HP TouchSmart PC is targeted to a growing bulk of users seeking the simplicity of photo management, pleasant viewing of Free-to-Air broadcasts as well as the latest movies on DVD. It comes with a 22inch HD Ready display with its own stereo speakers. It has a webcam as well as a built-in microphone. To assist with the transition to touch technology, wireless keyboard & mouse is provided as well.

One of the many highlights of the HP TouchSmart PC are the two finger image manipulation. As seen on this screenshot, this is a standard display of the applications available to the user. The image below show the same image with the applications icons enlarged. This is achieved using two fingers to expand the view. Listening to music is a breeze, and really a piece of cake. You just simply need to use your finger to touch on any of the albums and then drag it to the Playlist.

The HP TouchSmart PC comes with its own customised browser with smart icons on the left side of the screen. The HP TouchSmart PC is built onto a 64bit version of the Windows Vista Home Premium. This ensure robustness of operations. The HP TouchSmart PC comes standard with 4GB of RAM but can be upgradeable to 8GB, if the user so require. The HP TouchSmart PC is equipped with 500GB of HDD space, in which less than 1% of it is used for data recovery. The HP TouchSmart PC display is powered by Nvidia 9300M GS with 256MB graphic memory. It has a maximum resolution of 1680 by 1050.

Here are the technical details for you to salivate over.