The HP Dreamscreen is a gadget that doesn't seem to know exactly what it is. And that, I suppose, is part of its charm. It does the whole digital-picture-frame thing, though HP will cringe if you refer to it as a digital picture frame. Really, it's a media networking device that exists somewhere between a photo frame and a notebook.

I had a chance to play around with the gadget last night, and, all things said, it's pretty smooth. I asked the HP rep why it didn't have a touchscreen (the controls are touch, but are built into the bezel of the device), and he answered that it was less of a cost concern than a getting-fingerprints-on-your-screen concern. But heck, that hasn't hampered the iPhone's popularity, has it?

Check out a quick video of the device in action, after the jump.