What the DreamScreen can do is wirelessly display content from another computer in your home or from the internet.
Yes you can listen to music, watch videos and view pics but I can already do all that.
It has to stay plugged into a socket at all times as there are no batteries so I can’t exactly pick it up and carry it from room to room with me.
What the DreamScreen can do is wirelessly display content from another computer in your home or from the internet.
Yes you can listen to music, watch videos and view pics but I can already do all that.
It has to stay plugged into a socket at all times as there are no batteries so I can’t exactly pick it up and carry it from room to room with me.
I’ve got to admit though, it would look pretty cool hanging on my wall and conveniently, it comes with wall mounts on the back. So what else is it really good for?
“What we’re really trying to do is bring a simple, user-intuitive device that’s always on, always connected to the internet, to bring web applications that don’t require PCs,” said Ameer Karim, director of worldwide marketing with HP’s futures and innovations group.
Wait a minute, there is no touch screen capability, there isn’t a full internet browser, there are a limited number of applications for it, I couldn’t check my email on it for a start and I wouldn’t be able to view videos from YouTube.
Yes I can use it to “view” the likes of Facebook, Snapfish, Weather forecasts and a Calendar, and I can listen to the radio with it too if I want.
Personally I love geeky gadgets but this brings me back to my original question of why anyone would actually want one of these as for me this is no dream screen. If any of you do then I’d love to know why.
Yes it might function as a fancy photo display but it doesn’t even have the capability of a low spec Netbook.
“Internally, we’ve been calling it ‘bite-sized computing’,” said Karim. “It’s snippets of the stuff you’d normally get on a computer, but we don’t really want to bring productivity here.”
Apparently though HP will be adding more applications in future and do intend to expand its capabilities and really at the moment it is not supposed to replace the computer anyway.
As for the future, “It is very likely you will see these devices do all sorts of things, like access content on a DVR or a set-top box” says Karim.
Now that’s more like it.
In the meantime if you want to fork out $250 and you happen to live in the USA then the DreamScreen is available online now and in stores from the 11th October.
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