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.

The Xbox 360 elite and its accompanying hard drive may certainly be driving a hard bargain amongst gamers, but Microsoft is quick to defend their new product. CVG reports that Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg defended it recently on the Game Theory podcast, saying that the cost of the new drive was comparable to other drives on the market.

Greenberg notes one difference with their new drive to the ones out on the market, which makes the current comparisons somewhat moot. Instead of mastering the art of installing a new drive yourself, the Xbox 360 Elite drive is a plug-and-play drive, which is a different type of drive from the ones modders manage to add to their units. Said Greenberg,

What we have done is release a smaller laptop size drive. If you compare what we are offering with a real plug and play drive the closest thing would be to tale a 120 gig self powered external PC drive and in that case we are seeing those retail at anywhere from US$ 160 to US$ 200

Greenberg does have a point, though. Ease of use considered, this does seem to be the average price when compared to other plug-and-play drives on the market. Of course, if you're already an experienced modder and hacker, then your solution would definitely lie in installing one for yourself. On the other hand, the bargain doesn't seem so tough when compared to the alternative of not having an expanded 360 hard drive at all.

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.