Today in Engadget: January 27, 2006

Will Amazon start offering video downloads in April? Will Sony be releasing a new consumer HD camcorder? Have you been voting at (2005 Engadget Awards) and for (2006 Bloggies) Engadget lately? These were some of the many questions we pondered today, which started off with a bang when PSP Update's Fanjita released his much-anticipated boot loader that effectively brings homebrew to PSPs running firrmware versions 2.01 through 2.5. And as if that weren't enough, we brought you a ton of gear to boot- Pioneer, Pentax, Motorola, and Rollei are just a few of the heavy-hitters that we caught up with pre-weekend.

Features

• Have you been voting at and for Engadget lately?
• Music Thing: NAMM Oddities

News

• Homebrew on PSPs running firmware 2.01 through 2.50!
• The University of Nebraska's abdominal bot gastric rover
• Israeli startup adds CYM to LCD's RGB
• Virtual Vonage Phone Numbers let you set up lines in Western Europe
• Soldius golf bags solar-charge cellphones, iPods
• Pentax *ist DL2 goes after entry-level SLR shooters
• Keepin' it real fake, part XVII: Thanko goes metrosexual
• The GypsyMIDI controller
• Japanese bank to allow cellphone ATM access
• Rollei da10, ds6 compact digicams
• Motorola's RAZR V3c in pink
• Pre-order your Toshiba HD-A1 HD DVD player
• IBM files for DVR instant-replay patent
• Netgear's "100Mbps" RangeMax 240 Wireless Router reviewed
• Stick it to the man with your very own RFID-Zapper
• Pioneer's AS-PS55 waterproof speakers
• 8-inch LCD Freeview Digital TV
• LCD magnets write their own poetry
• Broadcast Flag hearings turn on iPod use
• Manual Power gyroscopic phone charger
• Cellphones good for patient care: study
• Steam powered RC vehicles set for world domination
• Researchers developing transparent OLEDs

Rumors

• Sony's HDR-HC3 HD camcorder leaked
• Amazon.com bringing video downloads in April?