The HP Touchpad is HP's tablet.  You may remember it from the mildly amusing commercials with Russell Brand.  It runs an operating system called webOS, formerly of Palm.  This is not to be confused with the other two big tablet operating systems; Apple iOS (featured on Apple's iPad) and Android (Google's tablet/phone OS - incidentally, I have an Android tablet, an Acer Iconia A500, which I love dearly and will probably gush about in a blog post soon).  

Well, in case you haven’t heard the big news in the computer world, HP is getting out of the PC business.  As part of that, they've instructed retailers to liquidate their Touchpads starting tomorrow (Saturday, 8/20/2011).  The 16 GB version is going to be $100, and the 32 GB version will be $150.  So if you have any desire for a tablet with a functional web browser that runs Amazon's Kindle software and Angry Birds, this would be the right time.

Me, I prefer my Android tablet, and obviously the future software possibilities for the Touchpad/webOS are, well, a little in doubt.  I wouldn't be surprised to see some other big player come in and buy webOS from HP, though.  So if you've got an interest in a tablet and a Benjamin to drop, I'd say go for it.  At that price, what do you have to lose?  It’s a tablet, it runs Kindle software, yet it still costs $40 less than a Kindle (without “special offers”).