When HP started out, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard took on all sorts of odd contract jobs—Harmonica tuners, automatic toilet flush sensors for Stanford…but one of the first tech support calls that Packard made for the company – about 70 years ago – was for a bowling alley. The foul line indicator Hewlett and Packard created wasn’t working properly. But there was Dave, sleeves rolled up, troubleshooting. Read more...
We gave everyone a peek at HP’s slate device during CES 2010 and people got excited. Last month, we let you see a little more about what our slate can do – and you guys lit up the Internet with comments. Read more...
During New York’s Fashion Week, Vivienne Tam’s spring 2010 collection had models carrying an interesting accessory. Vivienne calls it a “Digital Clutch.” We call it the HP Mini 210 Vivienne Tam Edition. The 2.7-pound, 1-inch thin netbook fits into purses and bags as well as matches Ms. Tam’s sense of style. And yours – you can order it now. Read more...
Here at HP, we’ve been focusing a lot on touch screens in the past couple years. Today we have TouchSmart PCs and notebooks, printers, iPAQs and most recently, there has been a lot of buzz around the slate videos we’ve posted since CES. Yes, our ground-breaking mobile device is coming out this year, but I want to clear something up. People assume that HP is new to the touch space – since the iPhone and other touch devices have surfaced. What many don’t realize is HP’s more than 27-year history with pushing touch technology forward. Read more...
What has 12,500 plastic bottles worth of plastic and just set sail from San Francisco to Sydney, Australia? Answer: The Plastiki, a 60-foot catamaran constructed almost entirely from recycled materials. Read more...
HP is always trying to do their best to reduce, reuse and recycle. At this past CES, HP displayed their green technology with their more energy efficient PCs and monitors. HP not only works to reduce energy usage in their products, but also does their part to lower the environmental impact of the product’s construction – right down to the packaging. Read more...
So, something came up and you couldn’t make it to Las Vegas this year for CES. Tell you what - just follow along with me for a quick tour of crazy touchscreens, awesome gaming rigs and other cool gadgets that caught my eye. And if you’re too distracted by all the blinking lights and cool bits of tech (absolutely no shortage of those at CES!), I’m the guy with the cool Hawaiian shirt holding the mike – Magnum P.I., eat your heart out. Read more...
Just because I'm back from CES doesn't mean the information will stop flowing. Into Tomorrow with Dave Graveline, the radio network program that covers consumer electronics and technology, not to mention been covering CES for the last 15 years, has yours truly on the show talking about the Mini 5102, Pico projectors, and the usual CES chit chat. Read more...
When you go to the store, the computers on the store shelf have more stickers and badges than a NASCAR racer. Well Nigel Dessau from AMD took a second to tell us how they propose to make the PC-buying process a whole lot simpler – by actually telling people what the computer can handle. Read more...
As the news from CES filters out to the Internet, everyone is chipping in their 2-cents on what the big things coming out of CES 2010 are. From predictions to trends, to even just hot new items that those in the industry are interested in seeing, there is always news from those in the know. And with HP @ CES covering the excitement from the floor of CES 2010, we’ve got plenty of the above to share with you. Read more...

