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Whoever it was at Sony HQ that motionless to aspire to “military contracts” as a income source, kudos! Mere days after the US Air Force voiced seductiveness in expanding the PS3 supercomputer , we’re conference stately Britannia’s Royal Navy has chosen 230 PSPs in to avocation as rider aids for the trainee sailors. Loaded with maths and production materials, the PSPs can be used in a bunk, have informed controls for the immature and often masculine recruits, and have been deliberate flattering difficult to break. The underlying reason for this move yet is price cutting: by creation the precision march some-more intensive, the Navy is saving on training time. Given that the UMD expostulate won’t come infirm — that is hoped to inspire the sailors to take improved caring of the device — the destiny this paints is of marines who’ve outlayed some-more time with a freebie handheld console than with a pro instructor. At slightest they’ll have a good fast of prisoner monsters to show for it. [Thanks, pankomputerek] Sony PSPs enlisted as investigate aids by the Royal Navy creatively appeared on Engadget on Sat, twenty-eight November 2009 21:01:00 EST. Please see the conditions for operate of feeds . Permalink