Coming soon from HP

About a year ago HP decided to make our lives really difficult and announce 158 new products on the same day. Now it looks like they're getting ready to unveil a whole bunch more stuff, probably/hopefully not as much as last year, but the line up is set to include the long-awaited HP version of the iPod, LCD televisions, wireless "links" (whatever that is, sounds like a line of wireless media adapters), a digital media hub, and possibly a few other surprises. The lameness is that HP is building all sort of digital rights management into a lot of the gear, since they've decided they're more interested in pleasing Hollywood than their customers (they've apparently have also decided that they're not interested in making money, since why would anyone buy crippled gear if they didn't have to?). Anyway, the big announcement is expected around September 2nd or 3rd, we'll have a full report for you whether we like it or not.