One year into its new journey as HP Inc., the company has innovated like never before and delivered products
that amaze. At a gathering to celebrate Chinese new year HP showed:
Immersive computing
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| Ch'ng speaks about how the Sprocket was extremely well received at family gatherings over Chinese New Year, especially by the older generation. |
Immersive computing
The Sprout is changing "how teachers teach and students learn," said Lionel Ch'ng, MD, HP Inc. Singapore. Instead of a keyboard, users interact with the
Sprout Pro via a 20-point touch mat that is ruggedised and self healing.
"We're bringing the 3D world into the 2D world," said Ch'ng.
Celebrating moments
Blending the best of digital technology with physical memories is the HP Sprocket Photo Printer, ideal for creating family mementos during gatherings. The Sprocket is a wireless, palm-sized printer that easily syncs with a smartphone, allowing the user to customise images and print instant 2" x 3" stickable snapshots from virtually anywhere. Singapore will be the first to launch sprout pro in Southeast Asia.
According to Ch'ng, Singapore Sprocket is out of stock currently, and Singapore will be one of the first countries to launch it within Asia around mid-2017.
The magic of printed letters arriving in the mail
In another nod towards special family moments is The Adventures of Harriet Purrkins (initials "HP"), created by HP and local storytellers of the story of a young tortoiseshell cat in Singapore. Through a five-week subscription service, the magic of receiving personal stories as printed letters in the mail was reignited in 900 families and made story time special again.
Hashtag: #ReinventStoryTime
Home printers make a colourful statement
HP has also redesigned home printers with the new HP DeskJet 3700, the smallest inkjet All-in-Ones in the market. The HP DeskJet 3720/3721/3723/3724, whose model names denote different colours, are extremely compact and come in the full range of four colours in Singapore: electric blue, sea-grass green, red and purple. The complementary HP All-in-One Printer Remote App enables users to manage printing and scanning tasks easily with a mobile device.
Ch'ng noted that HP printers and PCs are protected at the BIOS level, below the software level and therefore harder to hack. Each HP PC and enterprise printer contains a 'golden' copy of the BIOS which is compared with the existing BIOS at startup. If the working BIOS has been hacked, self healing kicks in, he said.
Transforming productivity for healthcare service providers
At the workplace, HP has made mobile and desktop computing seamless with the HP Elite x3. The device may be the size of a smartphone but is really a three-in-one device that combines the power and productivity of a PC, versatility of a laptop, and the capabilities of a smartphone with the help of accessories. Place the Elite x3 in a docking station connected up to a desktop monitor, and it runs as a desktop. Place the device in a lap docking station, and it is basically a laptop. In live demonstrations, there was no discernable lag in using the device for video playback and other day-to-day work tasks.
HP Singapore's partner Serial Multivision saw an opportunity with the HP Elite x3 in healthcare, and developed an app for image and audio capture which enables more timely responses and rich data to be recorded for analytics and predictive modelling, while ensuring patient confidentiality. The HP Elite x3 is powered by the Microsoft Windows 10 mobile operating system, a secure mobile standard for enterprise environments.
Pushing boundaries
Many of HP's customers are focused on innovation. Cheng Yew Heng continues to push boundaries to benefit customers, for example. Singapore’s only sugar manufacturer of rock sugar and red and black jaggery sugar since 1947, Cheng Yew Heng is targeting the younger generation with Jewels by Cheng Rock Sugar Sticks, which have local flavours. HP’s digital printing technology was used to customise the packaging for Jewels by Cheng flavour in unique mosaic patterns.
Hashtags: #jewelssugarsticks, #jewelsbycheng
Custom printing?
HP goes one step beyond with customised packaging, labels or even posters. HP Graphics Solutions provides a broad range of digital printing technologies that enable variable data printing such as unique digits on angpow packets for Chinese new year. Sets of four digits are popular in Singapore as potential lottery winners, and are a first for angpow packets.
"We're bringing the 3D world into the 2D world," said Ch'ng.
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| Ch'ng demonstrates the Sprout Pro, a unique 3D-imaging solution that consists of an interactive screen on a conventional vertical touch display and a horizontal touch display called a touch mat placed on the tabletop instead of a keyboard. Directed at the education market, the Sprout Pro comes with a suite of applications that promote learning. For example, a 3D object can be placed under the camera (the curved arm above the screen), scanned quickly, and the resulting image incorporated into games or other software. |
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| The Sprout Pro displaying a piano keyboard on the touch mat, and musical notes on the vertical touch display. Pianotime teaches users how to play the piano. |
Celebrating moments
Blending the best of digital technology with physical memories is the HP Sprocket Photo Printer, ideal for creating family mementos during gatherings. The Sprocket is a wireless, palm-sized printer that easily syncs with a smartphone, allowing the user to customise images and print instant 2" x 3" stickable snapshots from virtually anywhere. Singapore will be the first to launch sprout pro in Southeast Asia.
According to Ch'ng, Singapore Sprocket is out of stock currently, and Singapore will be one of the first countries to launch it within Asia around mid-2017.
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| The HP sprocket printer prints namecard-sized photographs taken with a mobile app. |
The magic of printed letters arriving in the mail
In another nod towards special family moments is The Adventures of Harriet Purrkins (initials "HP"), created by HP and local storytellers of the story of a young tortoiseshell cat in Singapore. Through a five-week subscription service, the magic of receiving personal stories as printed letters in the mail was reignited in 900 families and made story time special again.
Hashtag: #ReinventStoryTime
Home printers make a colourful statement
HP has also redesigned home printers with the new HP DeskJet 3700, the smallest inkjet All-in-Ones in the market. The HP DeskJet 3720/3721/3723/3724, whose model names denote different colours, are extremely compact and come in the full range of four colours in Singapore: electric blue, sea-grass green, red and purple. The complementary HP All-in-One Printer Remote App enables users to manage printing and scanning tasks easily with a mobile device.
Ch'ng noted that HP printers and PCs are protected at the BIOS level, below the software level and therefore harder to hack. Each HP PC and enterprise printer contains a 'golden' copy of the BIOS which is compared with the existing BIOS at startup. If the working BIOS has been hacked, self healing kicks in, he said.
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| The HP DeskJet 3700 printer comes in four vivid colours. The Adventures of Harriet Purrkins is featured in the printouts. The third printer from the left shows how the printer is also a space-saving scanner - the document to be scanned is fed underneath the horizontal bar. |
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| Demonstrating how the mobile app works. Scanning still has a place when taking a picture directly with the phone casts a shadow on the document. |
Transforming productivity for healthcare service providers
At the workplace, HP has made mobile and desktop computing seamless with the HP Elite x3. The device may be the size of a smartphone but is really a three-in-one device that combines the power and productivity of a PC, versatility of a laptop, and the capabilities of a smartphone with the help of accessories. Place the Elite x3 in a docking station connected up to a desktop monitor, and it runs as a desktop. Place the device in a lap docking station, and it is basically a laptop. In live demonstrations, there was no discernable lag in using the device for video playback and other day-to-day work tasks.
HP Singapore's partner Serial Multivision saw an opportunity with the HP Elite x3 in healthcare, and developed an app for image and audio capture which enables more timely responses and rich data to be recorded for analytics and predictive modelling, while ensuring patient confidentiality. The HP Elite x3 is powered by the Microsoft Windows 10 mobile operating system, a secure mobile standard for enterprise environments.
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| A HP Elite x3 controls the lap dock, which looks like a laptop but is basically a screen and keyboard in a clamshell format, with no computing hardware inside it. |
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| The HP Elite x3 powering a classic desktop setup of monitor with keyboard and mouse. |
Many of HP's customers are focused on innovation. Cheng Yew Heng continues to push boundaries to benefit customers, for example. Singapore’s only sugar manufacturer of rock sugar and red and black jaggery sugar since 1947, Cheng Yew Heng is targeting the younger generation with Jewels by Cheng Rock Sugar Sticks, which have local flavours. HP’s digital printing technology was used to customise the packaging for Jewels by Cheng flavour in unique mosaic patterns.
Hashtags: #jewelssugarsticks, #jewelsbycheng
Custom printing?
HP goes one step beyond with customised packaging, labels or even posters. HP Graphics Solutions provides a broad range of digital printing technologies that enable variable data printing such as unique digits on angpow packets for Chinese new year. Sets of four digits are popular in Singapore as potential lottery winners, and are a first for angpow packets.
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| An angpow packet with die-cut flap that fits into a slot marked by the two dots. The HP logo is hotstamped to the left, and a unique four-digit number is printed on the right, so that it can only be seen if the packet is opened. |
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| Another view of the same angpow packet, large enough to store cash without needing to fold it, includes gold accents, a QR code at the bottom left and a unique 4-digit number at the top right, under the flap. |
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| A game board printed on fabric for durability and easy storage. |
Ch'ng also shared that the company continues to grow and invest in Singapore. HP Inc. is moving to a new campus in Depot Road, which will consolidate manufacturing, supply chain, and R&D functions. HP Enterprise Singapore will also be located on the same premises.
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