I think a killer app for the Touchsmart would be a family planner/calendar.

I've been intrigued by the Touchsmart at the store but will not purchase one until I see it can do a family calendar well. My goal would be to replace refrigerator hung calendars and whiteboard schedules and notes. The built in calendar app is useless for this function.

Need to be able to glance at the screen and see a daily to weekly schedule for the whole family. Things such as evening schedules for me and the wife, activity schedules with locations for the kids, daily reminders for things the kids might need for school or places you might need to stop on the way home. Then this needs to be synced with a web accessible calendar such as Google Calendar and also be able to subscribe to other online calendars. Also then needs sync with mobile devices such as Blackberry's.

Maybe some type of mashup of Google Calendar itself would work best.

There is already a pretty nice calendar in the Touchsmart software. There is even a little light on the top of the unit that lights up when an event takes place.

KNEELJ said: I think a calculator skinned like the Touchsmart browser would be neat. Neil

I'll second that!  Good idea.

David

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Touch hasn't exactly caught on in the home PC environment. Handhelds and commerce has been the focus of touch over the last few years but as people become more used to in their daily lives the technology will explode. ATMs, automated checkouts,jukeboxes and information kiosks that use touch are becoming increasingly popular. I imagine with the release of Win7 and the release of the new iMac, more people are going to be looking at the touchscreen experience for their homes and we will begin to see more touch friendly web sites and apps. There will be an explosion of touch technology in 2010.

I'd really like to install the suite of party games like you can play in on a touch screen game consol in a pub / bar.

Especially the game where they give you 2 pictures beside eachother and you have to touch the differences between the pics!

maybe something that makes that modifies that standard vista mouse behaviour to improve the touchscreen experience with all programs.

i dunno but insteat of a 32x32 icon, something that selects by lines so as to make outlook or a newsreader more easy to use?

maybe is something not possible otherwise hp would have made it, anyway i ordered my iq820 and i am soooo eager to receive it so i daydream here! still a couple of days :D

RYNCOKE said: I'd really like to install the suite of party games like you can play in on a touch screen game consol in a pub / bar. Especially the game where they give you 2 pictures beside eachother and you have to touch the differences between the pics!

The HP Games Console that comes w/ the TouchSmart has a fullscreen mode that is kinda elegant. It reminds me of the Pub kiosk. And it has many games that link up to it.
You might need to download an update from wildtangent. But it works well for a quick escape.

also, spreading fingers within a window to expand or contract it, not just resize the icons

With my new IQ804 mounted on the kitchen wall near the telephone, it quickly became obvious that a phone/address book application would be very handy. The Windows Contacts in Vista just doesn't make it when used with "touch".

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David

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Woohoo! I won my Touchsmart!