Fan-made PSP mockup is far sexier than the real thing will ever be
By Ryan Block 
posted February 11th 2008 2:23PM
posted February 11th 2008 2:23PM
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posted February 11th 2008 2:23PM
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I think Ryan's clever use of vocabulary effected your quick - and incorrect - response.
In front of the whole class too...
Brad, I believe you mean 'affected'?
Verb
to effect
1. To make or bring about; to implement.
no, Brad means effected, just as he said.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/effect
see definition 10 (the verb definition).
"Effect" is a noun. "Affect" is a verb.
So that makes Ben right. Sorry, Brad.
Actually, effect can be a verb as well. Haven't you ever heard the phrase "to effect change"? Effect means to cause or bring about, and affect means to change.
It's "affect change". Effect is noun and Affect is verb.
Effect can be used as a verb. Also read the comments before you make a fool of yourself. (I mean seriously it's like maybe the tenth comment down it doesn't take much to read a few posts.) And affect change would mean to change change idiot, it's effect change, as in to bring about or start change.
Unless I'm mistaken, Ben was alluding to this http://xkcd.com/326/
It could just be me seeing xkcd where none exists, though.
not only is 'effect' not always a noun, 'affect' is not always a verb.
Any Psych majors in the house?
is it just me or does the difference between effect and affect seem kind of trivial... I mean that that PSP thingy is schweet...
and this would be WHY I posted a link to a dictionary article, to save the pointless back and forth. Brad is exactly right in his use of effect. Check link. Done.
9bit's link was hilarious, tho. 8^D
no, they're correct - excepting. (e.g. "except for", rather than "agreeing to")
@9bit
teeheehee
I bet it will play doom!
(ok, ok, I apologize. I'll be good from now on)
The real question is, will it run linux?
But... WILL IT BLEND?
/sarcasm
this made my heart skip a beat.
Sorry to double post, but this is one of the best renderings I've ever seen. Excellent work.
Swap the position of the sticks with select/start and you've got yourself a winner.
Forget UMD, judging by the size of that you could stuff BluRay in there!
Wow.
It looks beautiful, but am I the only one with large hands that kind of enjoys having the controls on the side of the screen?
I already can't play my DS for more than maybe an hour or two at a time, and that's with barely needing to use the shoulder buttons since so few DS games are action or platform, the PSP on the other hand has quite a few racing, fighting, action, etc games.
You know what they say, large hands, small .....
Kneecaps? Toes? Libido?
I'M IN SUSPENSE GOD DAMNIT HELP ME
... large hands, small...
Pens
Its a right pain, you can never find one the right size.
Just you wait, sometime in 2020s, Engadget will be featuring this as KIRF MLCXII against the virtual reality psp6
Let me be the first to say
HOT DAMN.
Let me be the second to say
HOT DAMN.
I'll be a late coming third on that Hot Damn!!
Asha, I think it is clear that you killed that joke well.
In the best interest of all those involved,
let me also be the last to say
HOT DAMN.
I would buy if it looked like that.
Me too, but it won't.
Seems like it would be top heavy (i.e. stress on the wrists trying to hlod it up AND play at the same time).
http://www.alliwantforxmasisads.com/nintendo-ds-lite.jpg
Oh, come on, the DS Lite is lovely in the hands. You must simply have limp wrists.
I agree that it would be top heavy. It'd be better if the keypads slid out to the sides as opposed to down.
There is a big difference between the DS and this PSP mockup. The DS has a screen between the pads as well as 75% of the weight of components (CPU/Memory/ETC). This PSP mockup looks like it has more than 50% of the weight above the keypads, thus causing it to constantly want to fall forward.
well, as long as we're dreaming, make the chassis and case out of carbon fiber RP. make the screen cover polycarbonate, and voila, no more wrist problems.
theres not a button there that will fuck you over. Sony doesn't ship anything unless theres a built in way to eventually fuck you over.
If it still has UMD, does that count?
It has a memory stick. Close enough...
Hell, Sony fucking you over aside, I'm just glad to see Mr. Block admitting to wanting to hump something other than an Apple for once.
i don't even think thats possible to close with the buttons there lol
You could. The buttons are shallow enough that as long as the base has some clearance it should be able to slide over it.
Well to me, it looks like there would be a recess under the screen, as in it wouldn't be perfectly flush against the base, but the sides of the top half still wrap around the base, producing a properly-closed appearance.
build in a sim card slot
iphone is going into my trash can