I recently bought one of the new PlayStation Portables. It's a sweet little handheld device about the size of one of the original PlayStation controllers but wide enough to accommodate a 16x9 aspect ratio display in the middle. It can play movies, Spider Man 2 ships with it. You can encode your own movies onto the memory stick and watch them. It will also do a slideshow of pictures you download and play MP3s.
In addition to all that it plays games. The one I am most impressed with is the Wipeout Pure game which is a futuristic racing simulator. It's good in single player but the unit also has Wi-Fi built in so that you can play it head to head with up to eight people without using a single cord. A guy I work with also has one and we were playing head to head matchups through lunch. And if there was a Wi-Fi hub to the Internet we could play games with people by linking up on the web.
Plus there are some 2D puzzle games that Lori can play. So we've got games for me and Lori, and movies for Megan all in one portable package.
My guess is that people will come out with games like an Internet browser, an RSS reader and all that so that the device is genuinely useful on the web.
That is sweet like buttah.
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