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If quadrotors can do it with Kinects for indoor mapping, using Kinects with your car and a precision GPS/WAAS receiver are around the corner:

http://kinect.dashhacks.com/kinect-hacks/2011/04/14/autonomous-3d-indoor-quadrotor-exploration-localization-mapping

Openstreetmap is going to need more storage capacity.

People are already doing that, by running piping the results from kinect to nodejs and have the webinterface use nodejs as it's server:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMBWYBH3TKg

This has no demo, but read the text and see the result:
http://kinect.dashhacks.com/kinect-news/2011/07/12/kinect-web-animation-using-html5-and-animatable

http://typefolly.com/css-tricks/

An other:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=p36xoBZVQ8c

Thanks, glad I could help. I'm 24, so I can't really say I've experienced what you have yet; that said, I have gone back to games I played as a teenager and noticed I'm not quite as sharp as I was back then. Someday I'm going to be playing these games with my kids and get my ass handed to me in a neat little package. At which point I'll launch into rant about how much better games were in my day, before we had these holo-projectors and full-body control suits that are just used these days to cover up the uninspired cookie-cutter designs of games like Call of Duty: Blood from a Turnip and they were fun because the graphics sucked and it was about gameplay, dammit!

Anyways, I can give you some advice on that PSP as well. Sadly, there's no perfect all-in-one resource for PSP homebrew like there is the Wii; the closest I've found so far is PSP Hacks, especially the forums. If you want to explore your homebrew options, you'll want to install a custom firmware (CFW) on it; which one to use depends on your PSP model and preferences. I personally have a PSP-Go and run 6.39 PRO-B8 on it. Some CFWs install permanently and other require a program to be run every time you start the PSP, which if you use sleep mode instead of turning it off isn't nearly as annoying as it sounds. The homebrew available for it is impressive, though not as good as the Wii; you can get emulators for almost every system up through the N64 - though SNES emulation is a little slow, and N64 is far more so, assuming you can get your game to run at all. Surprisingly, even though SNES emulation isn't perfect GBA emulation is much further along, if you like that platform. And if you have any interest at all in the PSX, the PSP has a near-perfect emulator built in; you can use PSX2PSP to convert disc images into PSP format. It doesn't support dual-shock though, and images with audio tracks are a bit tricky - they don't work at all in 6.xx firmwares.

As for the memory stick, don't bother with them - get a MicroSD-to-Memory-stick adapter instead, like this one. Or if you have a PSP-Go, you have 16GB of flash memory built in. For your media, use PSPVC to convert videos to something that will play on the PSP. If you want to listen to music, it should handle standard MP3s just fine.