That’s right.  One of the world’s best portable video game  systems has already undermined its proprietary format and cut  all further production of UMD movies.  Sony’s medium of choice  for the PSP is now Sony’s somewhat other failed format: The  Memory Stick.  Don’t worry, it gets worse.  According to  EHomeUpgrade, Sony’s PSP can handle 480×272 - what you’d expect  all your movies in, right?  Guess again.  Sony’s Memory Stick  movies will be scaled down to 320×240 - probably done to reduce  size and accomplish the necessary “squeeze”.  What does this  mean for Sony PSP games?  Who knows, but we gotta question Blu  Ray, and oh ya, there is that damn Mini Disc format that never  quite took off, but just won’t disappear.

Now that you've picked up that sexy little bit of Chocolate from Verizon, you're probably looking for a hefty storage option to load up all some of your tunes, and luckily SanDisk has got you covered with its new 2GB microSD card. First to market with a two gig flavor of this type of card, SanDisk has given VZW a 60-day exclusive for selling it in the US, while the rest of the world should be able pick it up at any number of locations. Available immediately, this card -- with its 1,000 VCAST song capacity -- will set you back an even $100, and probably less if you can find one of the OEM versions that SanDisk also announced.

The Optimus 3 Key Mini Keyboard uses programmable OLED screens as buttons.Origianlly, the Optimus Keyboard was going to be made into a full fledged, completely customable keyboard�" however, this 3 Key Mini Keyboard is the child of that endeavor. There are 6 possible presets for the three keys.The Keys are 20 mm x 20 mm with 96 x 96 pixels each, and animation at 3 frames per second. The keys can be configures to start an application, show free memory and CPU usage, display a web cam, display time and weather, or control IE, Windows Media, and Word. The Optimus 3 Key Mini Keyboard will become available in September from ThinkGeek, and will cost $160.

Maybe Nvidia's recent tough talk following the acquisition of ATI wasn't just talk. They're backing up those words with some serious graphics muscle: a unit called the Quadro Plex 1000 that can pump 80 billion pixels per second for pro graphics needs. Like, really pro graphics needs. Before we hurt ourselves trying to figure just exactly how many Marios that is, we'll run the rest of the specs by you. The Quadro Plex comes in a desktop (pictured) or 3U rackmount configuration, and is designed for working with 12-megapixel HD video, 3D graphics, scientific visualization, simulations and whatever else needs that type of GPU power. One node involves eight Quadro FX cards, jammed into two Plex 1000 systems and paired up via SLI, all of which is hosted by a 32-bit Intel or 64-bit AMD machine running Windows or Linux. All that juicy Quake II power (we keed! we keed!) can be yours starting at a mere $17,500, and should be available beginning next month.