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For my readers who do not own a PSP or have not been following the PSP homebrew scene, I should explain this, rather absurd headline. For a few months now, an exploit that allows the downgrading of the PSPs internal software (the firmware) has been in circulation after the accidental inclusion of a 'Pandora' battery by Sony. It would appear that Sony's solution to bricked PSPs would be to flash them through software which puts the PSP into a pseudo development mode. A Sony technician accidentally sent one of these magic batteries back with a customer's PSP and this exploit quickly became viral.

Now anyone can potentially unbrick a previously dead PSP - makes you wish you bought all the cheap 'bricked' PSPs on ebay. People who did must be happy now at the prospect of selling them and making a ten fold profit. But I digress, it would appear that new Sony batteries have been altered so as to stop them being modified to trigger the service mode. Should be interesting to see how they achieved this.