Two companies have teamed up to provide people with DS and DS Lite with some media and content love. Dai Nippon Printing & AM3 will be making what they called DSvision, which is a MicroSD-to-game-cartridge device.

A user would go online to find music, videos, books, pictures, and whatever else, then they will download it onto the MicroSD via the included USB adapter. Then they will insert the MicroSD into the game cartridge and into the DS or DS Lite it goes. What is even better is that the two companies will provide a web-based service where user can find these media. It will cost you, of course, but at least they are supporting their hardware.

The package of 512MB MicroSD, the cartridge adapter, and the USB adapter will cost you about $40.00 USD when it hits the market in January 2008. The web-based service will not go live until March 2008.

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Sony adds more functionality to its PSP by giving it TV capabilities. It is nice to know that they do not abandon older products. But before you get too excited, the 1seg TV Tuner adapter for the PSP will only work in Asia. Who knows, they already go through the effort of offering it, the TV tuner might make its way to the U.S.

Even for the people in Asia, however, you are still meant with more obstacles. The TV tuner will only work on the non-slim version of the PSPs, meaning the old ones. Again, they might make one for the slim PSPs in the future. Now for those who have made it this far, you will have to shell out about $60.00 USD and wait until the end of September.

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A while back there were rumors that the PSP will get a new piece of accessory that will be more helpful than fun. A GPS enabled attachment that will allow you to turn the PSP into a GPS navigator. It is not farfetched to assume that soon games will come out to use this new feature.

In fact there are already games out that will use GPS to play like “Minna no Golf-jou,” “Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops,” “Planetarium Creator Ohira Takayuki Kanshuu: Home Star Portable,” and “Navigation Soft.” There is no word on how much the GPS service will cost, but it will be about $60.00 USD for the accessory.

It is nice to see that devices are being more and more of other stuff than just what it was meant for, but it would be better if it was put inside the device instead of an extension.

Do you have a Nintendo DS Lite? Well soon you can add one more function to this little game device, a MP3 player. Nintendo is releasing this in the form of a game cartridge with slots for SD cards. After placing the cartridge with a SD card filled with MP3s, you can use the touch-screen to navigate and see all the songs.

Nintendo will officially release this to the European market in early December. The cartridge is actually compatible with other handheld Nintendo devices. It will cost about $45.00 USD, but for us over here in New England, we would have to use eBay.

There is leaked info about Sony releasing an updated version of their PSP next Spring. The biggest difference if the 8GB of built-in memory. Expected update everything and maybe even a smaller footprint, but for now nothing is for sure yet.

One bad news is that it looks like the PSP will be holding onto the UMD format for their disks. There are also talks of a hard-drive PSP will cost more than the flash memory of course.

My guess is that they will add in a camera and WiFi capabilities too, but who knows.