Read e-books, watch TV and play free games on your PSP

[Bob Russell]

Sony may make it hard to realize the full potential of your Sony PSP, but they sure know how to make hardware. So when you have a gadget you really love, it's time to test the boundaries and find ways to do the unexpected.

Popular Science treats us to some simple instructions for reading e-books, watching video on your PSP, or playing some SNES or "homebrew" cloned games.

To read e-books you just convert text into images you can read on the PSP. The suggested software is PSPphoto. You can even get RSS feeds using MioMediaBox .

The instructions look pretty generic for compressing video files. Programs suggested include:
* PSP Video 9 (free, for Windows)
* ffmpegX (free for Mac)
* iPSP ($20 Mac or PC)
* XilisoftDVD to PSP Suite ($45 Windows)
Convert to a memory stick file at 320x240 resolution, and 15fps, and you're set!

To play the video games:
Download the games zip file here which also includes a SNES emulator and some ROMs. Run KXploit from the zip file here and you're well on your way.

Check out the full instructions a the Popular Science article here .