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PSP As Home Remote Control
LiquidIce writes "Control your house with a PSP, using the wipeout browser hack. Currently, you can control a TV, DVD, and Lighting using the WiFi on the PSP. There are so many more possibilities for using a PSP as the controller to a home automation system."
Digging through the HTML, the link should have been to:
t rol-10.html
http://psphacks.blogspot.com/2005/04/psp-home-con
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How is this Slashdot worthy?
All it involves is using the existing "hack" for the browser embedded in Wipeout Pure to load a normal website that just happens to control various devices around the home.
It doesn't use the PSP's IR port or anything like that and as it uses the Wipeout browser it is an absolutely pain to load as Wipeout has a rediculous number of button presses and a large load time to get into the game.
Nifty yes but not exactly a PSP hack at all, it's just like the "IRC client" for the PSP that was just a web page.
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Webserver can run programs. News at ten.
Yeah, great. The PSP has a web browser. What's the next PSP hack that slashdot will report on? Google have hacked the PSP so you can check you mail on GMail?
Does this actually matter - it's main rival the DS can already have arbitrary code run on it and great leaps and bounds are being made into deciphering WiNi/NiFi every week. There is already a gcc and set of libraries for it and we can actually make games and have several active emulators.
And the PSP has a web browser? Great... my phone five years ago had one of those.