PSP was the golden age for me. I started university the year it launched in the UK but I already had a Japanese import PSP1000 I'd bought the year before. Stu

PSP was the golden age for me. I started university the year it launched in the UK but I already had a Japanese import PSP1000 I'd bought the year before. Studying CSEE a few friends and I were all over the hacking and homebrew and wrote a few apps/tools ourselves. We spent all of the boring lectures gaming on our PSPs, modifying them, dumping and swapping games etc. Later we got Compaq iPaQs and modified those, installed Linux etc and dreamed of a Linux phone, then came the first iPhone, I imported one of those the year before it released here (UK) and everyone who saw it in the EE department were amazed. Then of course came Android, the dream came true. Fast forward over a decade and Google has well and truly put a bolt through the head of that dream. It was a different time in my life, but I definitely feel it's (tech/gadgets) all a lot less interesting these days.