Wired's+15M+Dollar+HP+Touchpad+Challenge

Another twist we were throwing around the office re: the $99 HP Touchpad... Best Buy reportedly had >200,000 units. If you were an entrepreneur with $15 million and they agreed to sell you all of them at once for $75 a pop, what kind of business could you create where you could leverage the touchpad (and double your money)? [|about an hour ago]  · [|5952]   · Unlike  ·  You and [|51 others] like this. 50 of 60  [|Michael Simons] Are there any to be found online for purchase?? about an hour ago · Like [|Tregeu Coronado] My mistake ~ Staples business account about an hour ago · Like [|Natalia Homa Poursartip] mash them and make HP sauce about an hour ago · Like ·  [|14 people] [|Joao Nuno Branco] are u still babbling about that dinosaur? about an hour ago · <span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Kristin Glass Faison] Yyyyeah as a dealer your promotion would have to last forever at 20k units. You'd have to be offering it with something that you can actually move that quantity of product in a reasonable amount of time in order to get the return. A car is a HUGE purchase for most so a $99 tablet will not be a deciding factor in the purchase. You need something cheaper with higher profit margins for something like that. about an hour ago · <span class="comment_like_18242556 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like ·  [|1 person] [|James Logan] Install iOS on them and feel them as knock offs in China about an hour ago · <span class="comment_like_18242561 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like ·  [|1 person] [|Joao Nuno Branco] i got 10 quid.. about an hour ago · <span class="comment_like_18242566 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Eponymous Hipster] I hear they make love doorstops. about an hour ago · <span class="comment_like_18242568 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|James Logan] sell, LOL, not feel about an hour ago · <span class="comment_like_18242573 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like ·  [|1 person] [|Cadeijha Cusman] Sell 'em downtown black market somalia and invest in pirates. about an hour ago · <span class="comment_like_18242580 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Joop Kaashoek] Sell them as smart home decoration, you can show pics and movies but also show any internet/generated content/Youtube etc about an hour ago · <span class="comment_like_18242614 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like ·  [|1 person] [|Madonsela Vusi] Standardise the South African taxi industries with them included with street map. I should be commisioned with each passenger out of 14-16 passengers per taxi. Better yet when it is loaded with trip recordings. (^_^). Isn't that quite an Idea? Lol! about an hour ago · <span class="comment_like_18242631 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like ·  [|1 person] [|Andrew Hornback] You'd need to make a good amount of money on them since you'd have to assume all of the future support for them. And with no backing from HP, might as well spend that $15M on lottery tickets. 59 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18242645 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Marcus Cunningham] There's a company out there creating custom apps for restaurants...one place in NY is run completely on iPads. Take those tablets and offer them to the service industry! 59 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18242650 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Trudy Handel] ‎...and now they've created a "fire sale" mentality by holding them back when they went on sale. 59 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18242653 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like ·  [|1 person] [|Howard Carson] Especially after they root it and get Android working on it! 58 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18242664 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Conor Lansdale] Send it to our troops overseas, develop an app that can connect them with HQ and utilize all of their unmanned robots/vehicles from it, and save taxpayers billions in dollars that would have been tunneled through DARPA. 56 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18242694 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Adam Davis] If they were stylus sensitive, I'd work on a design firm or architecture program in documenting and stabilizing historic buildings. 55 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18242713 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Anil Kumar Metla] will make an app and use it as an interactive guide at tourist spots and will charge 2/5$ per use..... i double the money may be in a week and i am sure toucpad lasts more than 1000 uses..... 55 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18242718 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Martha Sosa] Something with the elem schools/kids. Maybe a 'app camp training' for a small fee; sell the hardware also for a small feel; each level of 'app camp' can be an additional small fee. Whatever the 'app camp training' fees are, they would be payable in $30 installments. IDK 55 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18242730 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Pierre Estienne] I have just one question about the TouchPad: Will it blend? 54 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18242746 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like ·  [|5 people] [|Cody Perez] Drop them over the amazon and let tribes people find them, install hidden cameras, and make a reality show out of it to air on ABC family. 53 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18242768 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Jose Mejuto] Give them away for free, but you must sign an 18 month DSL contract with your network provider... ongoing money every month... 53 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18242774 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like ·  [|1 person] [|Wired] ‎@Kristen -- AutoNation ranked as the largest auto dealer in the U.S., selling 206,000 new vehicles across 206 dealerships. You're right, would take over 2 years to clear inventory, probably too long. 51 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18242806 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Nathaniel Pool] I would launch a new program called "One Free Tablet per Illegal Alien." As soon as they pick up their FREE tablet, we'd load them up and ship them out -- saving the government billions in wasted Homeland Security and entitlements. The illegals would learn to develop software in their country, come back into the US (legally) and work for me cheaper than developers from India, thus creating 200K new jobs, dropping unemployment, and reducing off-shoring. 51 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18242808 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like ·  [|1 person] [|Richard Feigin] I would hand them out as a goodie bag to people entering Superbowl arena 2012. In exchange everybody lifts the pads over their heads by the first touchdown of the game. The Pads are preinstalled with a giant pattern divided over all screens. The moving pattern is a live commercial for any brand interested in buying Superbowl airtime at 50% off TV price. The brand will have the worlds largest guerilla marketing stunt. 51 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18242809 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like ·  [|1 person] [|Liam Johnson] Digital menus with order and pay capability direct on the tablet... scrap the webOS interface and install Android (once the bootloader is compete) and you have a tablet atleast as good as the Xoom for less than a quarter the price... having an armchair video phone/web browser alone is worth 100$... 49 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18242850 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Rene Espinoza] Turn them into tablets. And sell them for $300 46 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18242902 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like ·  [|1 person] [|Barry Albright] Put the Android OS on them and sell the 16gb for $149 and the 32GB for $199. 44 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18242946 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Randolph Gretz] I would cut the price in half again, then double it! 41 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18243002 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Michael Dzaman] Who would want to buy HP in the first place? They suck BIG time! 41 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18243005 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Matt Sapero] Cheap photo ad displays for stores and restaurants... Actually considering this... 39 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18243050 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Dean Dyer] Custom restaurant menus. For the mid-range/family restaurants that can't afford iPads. 36 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18243091 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Kevin Zimmerman] Collect all the apple stickers I've amassed over the years, stick them on the back and sell them for $600. 35 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18243117 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like ·  [|1 person] [|Ron Bronson] id use it as a giveaway for my biz 34 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18243133 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Steve Hamkins] Resell to toys r us as new etch-a-sketch. 31 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18243182 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Tiffany MacRae] I would use them as interactive museum/gallery guides so people could plug in and listen to audio tours and also read more about works of art/artifacts/historical events. 28 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18243251 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Mint Nopnirapath] do pre-sell BEFORE buying from best buy. buy all from them then hire them to ship to the customers. no capital needed. 27 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18243253 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like ·  [|1 person] [|Roy Denney] Networked controls displays for facility operatuos and sell them for a grand a piece. Still cheap by industrial appliance standards. 27 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18243255 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Kristin Glass Faison] The whole point isn't throwing the product in for people who are actually looking for tablets guys. It's for people looking for something else, see an added bonus that they find appealing, and buy from you over your competitor. Not sure what Wired subscriptions go for these days OR what the margins are, but offering a free tablet (albeit dead o/s) with, say, a paid 2 year subscription? I'd bite! ;) 26 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18243281 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like       [|Jason Wetzel] Kiosks. Use them as the touch screen interface on vending machines, things like the RedBox video rentals. Also, Web access terminals on airports and malls. 25 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18243289 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like        [|Jason Wetzel] You could also see if you could sell them to airlines to put into remodeling a cabin with individual Tv screens on the back of each seat. If that fails, release them with prepackaged educational software and wholesale them off to school districts and parents as learning tablets and textbook readers. 23 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18243316 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Michal Vavak] I would create a set of custom applications for all of them and sell them to airlines to use as in-flight entertainment systems. 23 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18243333 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Jason Wetzel] Also, sell them to gyms and strap them to each exercise machine as a video/music/data readout screen. You could even have them interchangeable and have each visitor check one out when they enter the gym and carry it around recording their detailed workout routine with a place on each machine to snap it in. 22 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18243350 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Mike McHenry] Offer BB $48 per unit...take it or leave it...then drop them on Woot for $70.. And let them sell 'em for $95 20 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18243393 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Simon Backer] Send them to China and sell them in a fake "HP Store" ;-) 19 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18243403 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like       [|Peter Wallis] Not buy all those iPads you were going to use for stock control or as ebook readers.Or rent them out as complete libraries. Or rent them out as interactive guidebooks when visiting museums, etc. 18 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18243413 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Michael McCracken] PornPads. 18 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18243424 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like [|Rick Jones] resell to hospitals for integration into smart medical systems. 10 minutes ago · <span class="comment_like_18243583 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #808080; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span class="default_message">Like
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