HP Dreamscreen

By Nick Mokey
September 18th, 2009

The 10.2-inch or 13.3-inch screen could pass for a simple photo frame, but inside the slender black frame, there’s a lot more silicon horsepower than it would need to simply rotate some JPEGs. The Dreamscreen will play full-screen videos, stream music from a connected PC, HP SmartRadio, or Pandora, and even ding you with status updates and upcoming events from Facebook. The built-in calendar and alarm clock make it a viable option to prop up on the bedside, and if you wanted to treat it like a mini TV, HP includes a tiny palm-sized remote for operating it from afar, too.

As you might expect, it uses a built-in Wi-fi radio to pull of all of its Web-connected functions. As you may not expect, it doesn’t use a touch screen. Instead, the controls have been worked into ...

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