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Touchscreen Project For PSP
Croakyvoice writes "Jube, who is an electronics engineer, has
today posted 2 videos of his Touchscreen
Project for the PSP. Basically, he has replaced the LCD Screen in the PSP with
a Touchscreen of the same size. The
videos show the touchscreen in action. The project's aims are also to increase
battery life and feature a re-designed control pad. The Homebrew Community again
leads the way on Sony's Handheld for innovation."
PSP - its like carpet you can rub, outside!
Soap box, Ballot box, Jury box, Ammo box. Use in that order.
The Homebrew Community again lead the way on Sonys Handheld for innovation.
Riiight.
*goes back to playing DS, a handheld with a touchscreen that's been out since 2004*
Your brain is not a computer.
Now a PSP can be more like an internet tablet..
If you're interested in facts I'll tell you what they are and I'll give you sources - Chomsky on The Big Idea
That sure was quick!
Joy! Beautiful spark of the gods!
I don't remember when the last time was that I bought a consumer electronics device from Sony. It could be never before. Aside from my nearly 10-year old CD480 Headphones which are starting to fall apart and are still the best headphones I've ever listend to music or computer sounds with.
Anyway: Two weeks ago I - after long thoughts, consideration, doubt and evaluation - finally bought a PSP. I had considered getting a DS, since I've got two GBA SPs allreay, but in the end the bizar price-point of the DS (it's barely 20 Euros less that the PSP, despite being a far less powerfull device), the nearly identical pricepoint of technically inferior games and the PSPs compareatively huge screen and a steadyly improving games lineup I settled for Sonys baby.
I must say, it's the best electronics device purchase since I bought a feature-laden high-end mini MD recorder from Sharp 12 years ago. The featureset that comes with a PSP out of the box is astounding (WLAN, Skype, Browser, MP3 Player, MPEG4 Videoplayer, etc.). I didn't even know about half of these before I got it.
The first game I got is "God of War - Chains of Olympus". An absolutely unbelievable game for a portable device. The last time I was so flabergasted by a game was seeing "Incoming" on the first PC with a 3DFX card built in. Sometime in 1996 or so. The game ends with an appropriate orchestral finale, with takes from the game and something like 3,5 minutes of 150+ people who worked on it scrolling by, just like in some large-budget hollywood flick. Just thinking about how back in the days of the Amiga 500 we would have chopped out right arms of to get one of these devices makes me notice how far technology has advanced since then. I'm simply blown away.
Currently I'm playing "Patapon", which is a PSP exclusive 2D vector gfx game which is so well designed, witty and funny, I catch myself giggling when playing it on the train. (and silently singing "Pon, Pon, Patta Pon" for hours after)
All - mostly baseless - bickering about proprietary UMDs aside, I consider the PSP the best portable entertainment device ever. The DS to me more than ever comes across as a total money ripp-off and I've come to see Nintendo with quite a bit more scepsis than before. Same goes for the current iPod Nano, which was on my radars aswell. Note that I'm a Mac (and Linux) user.
The PSP - wether with or without the homebrew stuff considered - deserves far more credit than it gets. If you're thinking about getting one, I can only warmly recommend it as a universal portable multimedia device. With a sizable memory card added, you'll have a long time of lots of fun with it.
My 2 eurocents.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
My current PDA is still a Tapwave Zodiac you insensitive clod.
(PalmOS powered PDA/handheld hybrid launched in 2003)
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
its a don't ask don't tell basis....