PSP doesn't share charger

I normally wouldn't post news of this calibre but I thought I'd share this so you guys won't hurt yourself - or rather, your PSP.

Bob Nixon, this guy from Florida, lost his PSP battery charger and thought he'd use a generic replacement charger. Then, guess what happened? The PSP went kaboom! on him.

“It had been charging for over an hour when it just went off," he said. I'm not surprised. This is Sony we're talking about. They don't share.

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PS3 Free of Stress

Gadgets have always undergone a stress test to see how they fare in different situations. Whether it's because the PS3 is really expensive that no one wanted to do a stress test on it is a wonder but recently, PS3vault did a stress test on the PS3 in three different environments. Here's an extract from their experiment:

Environment 1 Typical Family Room
Temperature 73 F
Console Ran continuous for the 108hours with only once incident happening at 12 hours in – a slight vibration coming from the tray area which lasted approximately 20 seconds. For the remaining time allocated no incidents were reported

Environment 2 Back of a Freezer Van – unit was placed inside the closed van with controllers and screen mounted outside, - no one was willing to sit in side the van for any extended period of time
Temperature Started at 50F and was progressively scaled down over the next 4 days to reach 0degrees.
Incidents We noticed a slight sluggishness in playback once the temperature reached 0 degrees , this was maintained for the last 24hours, with 12 hours to go we thought we were going to crash with a sudden , blackout to the screen, this was tracked down to condensation on the cord for the screen.
108hours in and still working fine

Environment 3 Heat Sauna – again console inside and controllers and screen outside.
Starting temperature was 100F and Gradually increased to 120F over the last 24hours.
Incidents Strangley enough we thought this would prove to be the ultimate area to kill the console, and to our surprise the only incident we noticed was a slight burning smell that came in around 64hours at 110F, the console was extremely hot when we finished the overall test but had come thru all environments with flying colours.
This console is now back in a normal environment and working fine.

Any of you wanna try these out and capture it on video?

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