Hope everyone is having a wonderful new year! This past year has been busy busy for me. To aid in my many travels and journeys, I bought a Sony PSP quite some time ago. It helped me in boring airports and hotels where I could listen to music and watch a movie or two. I bought a couple games, but never could really get the time to play them. To me, the PSP was handy. It was compact and would do more than just a DVD player or a MP3 player, it would combine those in a small size so I wasn't burdened with bulky cords and cases. Not too shabby, but not something I'd have bought just on a whim. Since I bought it, my son has bugged me about using it for himself. His friends at school have various gaming devices and a couple of his friends had a PSP. My son had a Gameboy SP that I'd bought him, but he acted quite bored with it. This Christmas it was decided by the family to buy him a PSP of his own. The day came around and I asked my wife to go buy one at the store. She called and said "they're out". Huh? This system has been on the shelves for 3 years and not sold, how could they be out. I just figured maybe the store she was at just didn't stock up and sold their only 2 in the rush of the holidays. I jumped on the Blackbird (gotta put a plug in for the motorcycle topics) and went to the local Gamestop. I walked in and asked the sales droid for a PSP. He said "nope, we're out...just ran out today". I asked about used and he said "we have had these on the shelves and couldn't sell them for quite sometime, but today we ran out". GEEZ! After several other Gamestops and such, I finally became desperate. I pulled into one and walked in to ask the sales guy. He said "I have one left and it's a bundle...take it or leave it". I took it! I got home, wrapped it and put it under the tree for the next morning. In the meantime, I'd popped my PSP out and connected it to the internet browser. It said there was a new update out. Now, I'd just updated the firmware a week before so I figured there weren't any really new improvements. When the update installed, it said something about "internet radio". Okay, that's a cool feature. When I started it up, it turned out to be streaming radio similar to XM satellite radio. That started answering why the PSPs were bought up all of a sudden. Last night, I was fooling around with my system again, and I came across something else....a camera that attaches to the top of the PSP and allows for still and video to be captured. With the sharing capabilities of the units, you can share the videos from one unit to the other. Okay, now we're getting cool! Not so fast though, it's not yet available in the US...only in Japan markets (ebay is becoming a friend right now). This wasn't all. When I got serious about the other little things you could get, it turns out that Sony is releasing a GPS to also incorporate into the PSP. Now we have a gaming console, MP3 player, movie player, internet browser, internet radio system, video/still camera and now a GPS system...all in a small unit that fits snugly inside a motorcycle jacket or clips across a triple tree of a motorcycle. I'm not sure about anyone else here, but I'm in the market for a RAM mount that will connect my PSP onto my motorcycles! I'm furnishing the first rounds of blackeyed peas for today!!!
