Win a free dx9000 TouchSmart PC from HP and AskTheAdmin! (Developer Contest)

Hey there loyal AtA readers! I know the posts title caught your interest and now you are reading more to find out how you can win yourself one of these innovative new systems that you can see pictured above. I have been going back and forth with HP trying to figure out the best way to open up this contest to our readers. And here is the proposed contest:

I have two of my best clients that are on the lookout for custom TouchSmart applications. By creating an application for one of these two companies which we will detail below you can be chosen to win one of these TouchSmart’s for yourself. And after all isn’t that all we want… Nice shinny uber cool gadgets? Oh is that only me??

To participate in the contest you will create an application for the TouchSmart. It can either match one of our two scenarios or you can submit your own ideas for the application. Once we finalize the ideas that you guys will be creating we will start accepting applications.

We will then demo them and show them to the company they relate to. Once we select the winning application we will send you your very own dx9000 TouchSmart.

• The first company is a high end clothing manufacturer in New York City that wants an application to show off their beautiful completed garments as well as concept designs.
• The second company is a Computer repair shop that wants to allow customers to use the TouchSmart to enter their information when dropping off their computer for repairs.

There are already a bunch of apps for the TouchSmart that people have developed—TIME and Adobe made one for the TIME 100 which is free to download—and a few businesses that already used custom-built apps, which we’ll talk more about when there’s a dx9000 here for me to play with!

So do you want to know more about this contest? Maybe you want to know more about the TouchSmart platform or even how to create applications for the TouchSmart… Then drop us a line at info at askTheAdmin dot com or leave a comment. We will be posting more details as they become available to us and as always we are open to your tips, ideas or death threats…

The dx9000 TouchSmart starts at around $1400 usd so if you think you can come up with the winning application…

THEN GO GET STARTED!  You can also read the full press release after the break…

A nifty little demo of the TouchSmart can be found here and

Check out the TouchSmart developer guidelines for some good how-to info!

–Press Release–

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 29 – HP today announced leading industry blogs including Ask the Admin, AbsoluteWindows and Hardware Geeks are conducting promotions to uncover business touch applications for the HP dx9000 TouchSmart PC. These sites will select entries and present the HP dx9000 TouchSmart PC* to the most innovative business application developer.

“At airports, stadiums, hotels and retailers, HP TouchSmart PCs are helping companies large and small engage their customers with a fun and interactive touch experience,” said Alan Reed, vice president and general manager, Business Desktops, Personal Systems Group, HP. “Users can scroll, zoom, and browse with the touch of a finger, bringing multimedia content to life and immersing the user in custom software applications.”
At the TouchSmart Community, software developers can access HP TouchSmart guidelines to easily modify existing applications to work on a touch interface, or create new applications.

_TheContestLovingAdmiN_