Jesse Schell on the future integration of gaming and technology into our daily lives. It’s nearly half an hour long, but stick with it. He starts off a little slow - blah blah facebook numbers - but then your mind will be blown. It may not be a huge, catastrophic mind=blown, but when you think about it, you’ll realize just how crazy this stuff is. Maybe you’re freaked out that Big Brother seems inevitable. Maybe you’re excited because you’re going to be the one making this stuff. But if you can watch that and not feel much about it, you clearly don’t know enough about technology.

Speaking of exactly that, fuck yeah to-do list RPG!

I actually had that talk bookmarked to watch for a couple of months and hadn’t gotten around to it. Now I have, and I am glad that article reminded me of it.

In other news, a USB Dongle claims to turn your PS3 into a debug console, allowing it to copy games to external (and internal) harddrive for playback. Not to mention homebrew shenanigans. Will it actually work? Who knows. Either it REQUIRES a debug console, or it makes your console INTO a debug console. The internet can’t quite decide. Anyway, it’s $170 AU, and I’m too lazy to google up a conversion for that, but suffice to say it’s probably not worth your money just yet. Hell, I spent $80 getting an R4 (a thing for pirated DS games) that couldn’t accept a MicroSD bigger than 2 gb. What a caveman I was. Now you get flashcarts with built-in processors, allowing emulation of GBA, SNES, and more, not to mention xvid video playback and e-reader capability. Did I mention that it plays DS games, too? It lets you save text files as walkthroughs and access them as an overlay while playing the game. My god, the future, it has arrived.

Alleged PS3 Jailbreak here. Comments have more info and stuffs if you’re really interested.

Meanwhile, Engadget is disappoint that magical Sharpie is not so magical after all. Reminds me that I should buy some eraseable pens to circumvent my terrible, terrible handwriting. Not that it will improve how I write, but it will be easier to see. Legible? That’s questionable.