Engadget, an online technology and gadget magazine, recently posted interesting photos of HP's CTO Phil McKinney.

The photos, which were originally dropped via Twitter by HP's social media strategist Mark Budgell, came in conjunction with a little push for readers to vote for McKinney's SXSW panel.

Since HP's $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm, the company has found creative ways to harness and tap employees to brainstorm around the possibilities created by the webOS platform. Earlier this year, HP held a WebStorm powered webOS App Competition for employees to build and submit apps for the platform that likely produced a few of the new devices promised to be "breakthrough".

McKinney has already revealed through Twitter that over 500 apps were submitted to the WebStorm-powered campaign and he is in the final stages of hand-picking the winners.

Make sure to follow Mckinney on Twitter and check out his blog to keep up with developments and teasers like this one!