Welcome back to InterrupTech. Catch up on the week’s most important tech stories in a hurry. We cover HP’s new line of computers including the DreamScreen, a digital book outsells hardcover version, Facebook tops 300 Million users, Microsoft fumbles with the Zune again, and Android is picking up steam.

Not to be overshadowed by the slew of HP notebook and desktop news, HP just introduced the DreamScreen, a new “Wireless Connected Screen” (digital picture frame), available in two sizes, 10.2-inches and 13.3-inches and both feature the same resolution of 800 x 480. Like many other frames, HP’s DreamScreen can do more than display photos. more »

The IPEVO Kaleido R7 is an Internet-connected digital picture frame available for $149 at store.ipevo.com. The design is top notch and the menu system is very modern. The rotating display allows you to view images in portrait or landscape. The viewing angle on the Kaleido R7 is terrific in the landscape mode. Keep reading for the full review.

The Sungale ID800WT is more than just a digital picture frame; it is a touchscreen device with built-in Wi-Fi. Besides the main picture-viewing function, the ID800WT also plays video files, music, and has widget-like apps such as weather and stock quotes. It retails for about $200. It did a great job display photos, but how did it fare showing off Internet content? Keep reading.

Gadgetell recently got to play with an IPEVO digital picture frame, the Kaleido R7. Now, I am the guy who wrote a post denouncing digital picture frames as a pointless technology. IPEVO changed my mind.

Digital picture frames have gone through a couple of styles. It started off with toyish plastic borders and eventually moved into looking like traditional picture frames with slim borders. IPEVO decided to come up with its own design.

Looking like it belongs in a movie that is set in the future, the IPEVO is slick looking with its two-toned color scheme and flat buttons.

Digital picture frames. There are no end to them. Around this time, many vendors are pushing the frames as a great geek gift.

I’m a geek, I fell for it, and am now over the idea of digital picture frames. Let’s look at what these things promise. You can view all of your photos in such a small footprint. Get a Wi-Fi enabled one and you can subscribe to RSS feeds of people’s pictures. Some even allow you to do picture correction right from the frame.

Then there’s real life. Keep reading to see where this rant goes.

As we get closer and closer to Black Friday, we find more and more deals being leaked by stores. In addition to Dell ads, which were leaked earlier today, we have a few Staples ads that show what they have planned for us. There are only about 6 items listed, so I think this is just a sampling of what they have to offer.

First, we begin with their computer-related deals as we have an eMachine 19″ Flat Panel LCD Monitor, which is set to be on sale for $99.99. Also, we have the SanDisk 8GB Cruzer Contour USB Flash Drive, which also comes with ReadyBoost as a main feature. ReadyBoost makes your Windows Vista machine perform faster as the computer uses the flash drive’s memory to expand its RAM. The Cruzer Contour is normally on sale for $59.99, but on Black Friday, it will be available for only $12.99.

Check out even more deals after the break.

Digital picture frames have been sweeping the market, and so is OLED (organic light-emitting diode) technology. I suppose it was just an obvious to mix the two, and Kodak is the first as the company just unveiled the wireless OLED digital picture frame.

As you can see, the OLED screen is quite thin. I don’t have measurement of its thickness (or thinness), but considering the OLED from Sony debuted at CES at 0.3mm, then this one from Kodak is probably millimeters thin.

More info on the Kodak OLED frame after the break.

Loved ones not happy enough with the fact that you’ve just bought them a new digital picture frame? Then perhaps you should try pre-loading up to 100 photos on it before you actually give it or ship it out to them. This is what a convenient new service from Kodak is trying to do for more »

Mother’s Day is just around the corner, and maybe you’d like to give your mom a digital picture frame. But here’s something to think about, in the U.S. News & World Report issue for the week ending May 5, 2008, Marianne Lavelle writes,

“Look at just one of the new energy guzzlers: the digital photo frame. This always-on gadget burns a barely noticeable $9 extra a year into the average household electric bill, says the nonprofit Electric Power Research Institute. But the impact could be staggering. EPRI estimates that if every household in America owned one, it would take five medium-sized power plants just to keep those family photo slide shows rolling in the nation’s living rooms. ‘I call these electronics the sleeping giants in our homes,’ says Thomas Reddoch, EPRI’s director of energy utilization.”