Hacking the PSP has long been a popular pastime, but the 3000 model has proven a tough nut to crack. Don’t pop open the champagne just yet, though, Sony — Datel has revealed a special battery peripheral called the Lite Blue Tool that boots the handheld console into service mode, where downgrades to earlier, cracked firmwares are possible. Of course, most older PSPs could be downgraded without any additional hardware and you only needed a battery like Pandora if you failed the idiot test and bricked your system, but be patient, pirates totally legit homebrew types — Rome wasn’t burnt in a day. Lite Blue is priced at an affordable $29.99, not bad for an interim solution if homebrew and “backups” are your thing.
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PSP 3000 finally, inevitably hacked by Datel’s Lite Blue Tool originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Just hours before the Xbox 360’s newest dashboard update hits tomorrow morning (10:00 a.m. GMT), our friends at Joystiq noticed the list of movies available for Netflix Watch Instantly streaming has suddenly dropped. The culprit? Sony Pictures Home Entertainment subsidiary Columbia Pictures, flicking previously available titles like Superbad, Bad Boys, and We Own the Night over to “Not available on Xbox” status (curiously, SPHE movies are still available to all.) Word from the official Netflix blog cites “the ebb and flow” of what is available on license at any given time causing a few hundred titles to be “temporarily” unavailable on the console, while still open for streaming for other devices, with an eye towards licensing them for the Xbox 360 soon. There’s no way to know what movies won’t work until adding them to your queue, so when you find your Karate Kid trilogy watching time suddenly wide open for more Gears of War 2 or Left 4 Dead action, just remember you have Sony to thank.
[Via Joystiq & Multiplayer]
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Sony Pictures celebrates NXE eve by… blocking Xbox 360 Netflix movie streaming originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/coin_slot_detector.jpg” width=”494″ height=”371″ style=”display:block;float:none;” /Instructables posted a guide to creating a plumbers’-crack detector, using a a href=”http://gizmodo.com/tag/lilypad-arduino/”LilyPad Arduino/a controller, a vibrating motor, and a photoresistor to measure how much light is beaming into your crack. When the photoresistor comes uncovered, the motor starts to vibrate, letting you know that your “coin slot” is exposed and people behind you may be looking and/or laughing. After that, it’s your choice: hike up those low-ride jeans, or give a little show? [a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/coin_slot_detector/"Instructables/a, created by a href="http://www.tinyscissors.com/"Amy Khoshbin/a]/p br style=”clear: both;”/
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We’re anxious to check out the BlackBerry Javelin, don’t get us wrong. But even we have our limits. Like, we wouldn’t pay $17,100 for the thing. Maybe $16,500. But anything over $16,800? That’s just nuts. [eBay via CrackBerry]
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