Headplay is probably every couch potato's dream. Imagine a TV. Now imagine being able to take it anywhere and everywhere you go (except perhaps in the shower), and being able to watch movies or play games on it anytime you want. That's the concept for the new "Personal Cinema System" device, Headplay.

Headplay is a head-mounted device; basically, a TV you wear on your head. You can connect it to your gaming consoles, your DVD Player, your iPod, your PC, and maybe your Betamax player if it hasn't choked on dust yet. If it has a video out function, Headplay can most probably display it. You can also plug in a memory stick and Headplay can run the media files - movies, videos, and images - with its own built-in player.

Once you're behind the lenses of Headplay it's pretty easy to just relax and go dead to the world around you. It's nothing but you and the screen, with the stereo sounds blocking off everything else. It's like your own movie screen inside your living room.

To read the complete review of Headplay - what it is, what it does, how it plays on Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3, and Nintendo' Wii on it - click on the link for the full article.

What's this we have here? Another blot-on wonder boy looking to get smo-- (waitaminute... this isn't Most Wanted...)... Well, this is another bolt-on wonder boy we found being marketed: the HDFury Permanent HDCP Modification Kit.

Short version: this adapter screws on to the SUB-D HD15 input port of an RBG display - PC monitors, HDTVs, plasma or projectors - turns that display into an HDCP-compliant display. Name it: PS3, Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, whenever Microsoft ever gets around to confirming the HDMI Xbox 360 (which is why we're putting it in the 360 site), if you ever get an HDMI-enabled PC graphics card, that sort of thing.

The manufacturers of HDfury claim it's all legal conversion, fully compliant with all HDCP rules, plug-and-play, and will deliver high quality RGB-output video from an HDCP HDMI source. As it bolts on to the display set it also requires no external power source. Suddenly, the issue of HDMI-less HD sets for the PS3 may no longer be an issue, if this thing works as advertised. Now, the only thing missing is an HDMI cable... The link below takes you to the product website.

You know, if this works, this ain't just no bolt-on wonder boy looking to get smoked. This is the smoke.

For those following the PS3 Hyperdrive chronicles, Team Xecuter has just released some updates on their work in progress. First and foremost, they've now finished the design for their product and have revealed pics of a test machine. Observe:

  

To recap, the PS3 Hyperdrive will allow you to connect an HDD - SATA supported, IDE still being tested - by a simple plug-and-play system. It can also plug into your PC via USB, thus making file transfer that much easier. As far as an updated list of features goes, check it out:

• Supports 2.5" and 3.5" SATA HDD (Also working on built in IDE support)
• Switch for SATA HDD (2.5"/3.5") w/ LED
• Switch for select output interface for PC (SATA or USB) w/ LED
• Special SATA female (Hyperdrive) to Male (PS3) connector with custom plug-lock design, easy install and just plug and lock.
• Release lock button for disconnecting Hyperdrive with PS3
• Molex power source input.
• Easy to install HDD inside the Hyperdrive.
• Built-in cooling fan.

Still no word when it'll be available though. But the team explained that despite being a bit slow on the development, they "just want to get things done right without having to address problems later down the road." Fair enough. For now, this update is very much welcome. Cheers to the team, and godspeed!

With 23 compiled facts about the PS3 presented last October, how much more info do we need about Sony's console (apart from where we can get them, right?). Well, looks like Engadget had been putting their PS3 through its paces, and/or ringing up Sony for a few FAQs, to come up with this other list of PS3 facts you might like to know.

Or not. But hey, like Sun Tsu says, know thyself and the other guy, kick a** in a hundred battles, right? So here's what Engadget found out about the PS3.

• Console's cool - or at least warm to the touch - on every surface after "plenty of gameplay."
• In side-by-side tests with the Xbox 360, the PS3 runs "virtually silent."
• USB keyboards and mice are plug-and-play! No support for Bluetooth keyboards and mice at launch, though.
• But "Any (A2DP) Bluetooth headset should theoretically work with the system, though Sony will have a recommended hardware list."
• The EyeToy family is (maybe currently) the only USB webcam that will work with the PS3. First-gen EyeToys (for the PS2) should work with the PS3.
• No voice or picture messages can be left on the Playstation Network, only text messages
• Currently no plans for VGA out on PS3
• The system will not support more than seven controllers. (Then again, neither will your living room couch, right?).
• There are no plans for a cheaper, wired version of the SIXAXIS (At least from Sony, we think).
• With its media playback software, players can have customized in-game soundtracks (cool! a PS3 Ace Combat to Kenny Loggins' "Danger Zone"! Tom Cruise singing not included).
• Some titles can have game files installed on the HDD to speed up loading - but we knew that already.
• "The (HDD) can be upgraded, although not on any official basis (read: YMMV, do so at your own risk, you may void warranty, etc.)" (Break out the screwdrivers!).
  
• And finally, "Despite rumor, Sony insists the US is still officially targeted for a 400k unit launch; Japan is still set for a mere 80k. Sony execs are actually expecting an upturn in unit production before launch, so those numbers may actually go up."

Will the PS3 have an Eye-Toy like innovation? Yes! If rumor of Sony's secret weapon for the PS3 is not grossly exaggerated. The buzz says Sony has been involved with Prime Sense, an Israeli company that invented a technology that allows computers to see in 3D and grasp an understanding of the world based on sight like humans do.

Prime Sense’s interactive, plug-and-play, multi-platform device has the ability to see, track and react to user movements outside the computer without change of environment or wearable equipment. According to the reliable source (we haven't met a source who claims otherwise), Sony will have a PS3 peripheral using this incredible Prime Sense technology but designed for in-console gaming actions. If true, the PS3 really is a bargain after all!