The moment Sony’s (SNE) handheld game console, PlayStation Portable, went on sale in the U.S. on March 24, Auri Rahimzadeh got one. For months, he’d heard all about the latest gizmo from the Japanese electronics giant. Slightly bulkier than a checkbook and costing around $200, the PSP was the ultimate in mobile entertainment — a video-game, movie and music player, and Internet portal all wrapped into one easy-to-carry package.
While Rahimzadeh had been waiting for his preordered console, he had read rave reviews by technophiles who had scored a PSP in Japan months earlier. He knew this was no ordinary gaming gizmo. MOVIE BUFF. But Rahimzadeh had a hunch that the PSP could do far more. And from the instant he tore through the packaging, the 30-year-old software designer from Indianapolis knew exactly how to unlock all that untapped potential: hacking.
"I always try getting more out of a device, if it appears it can do it and I can enjoy the device more," says Rahimzadeh, whose book, Hacking the PSP, is due out in December. So far, Rahimzadeh has written software for his own PSP and downloaded, or "homebrew," games written by other techies. He’s even found a way to watch the hundreds of movies and TV shows he has on DVD by ripping them onto the PSP’s tiny, removable 1-gigabyte memory cards.
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