Best Device Ever

My friends have always seen me as a gadget person. I guess I can see their point, I tend to be an early adopter, but I'm not the kind of person who has to go out and buy the latest and greatest thing for the sake of it being the latest and the greatest. I just like when things work with my lifestyle. That said my new favorite gadget is my X-Box. Not the 360. "But thats not a new gadget," you say? You're right, except I spent the spare hours of my weekend turning it into an X Box Media Center. This may be the coolest thing ever. The short of it is that now my X Box can stream content including music, video and rss feeds from the internet or my home network. I really did this because I was interested in using my x Box to play the music I have on my PC so I can access my music collection from my living room and play it back while "hanging out." But this has turned out to be so much cooler than I could have thought. I can pull up video feeds from CNN, Comedy Central, etc and watch them on my Television instead of having to sit in my room. This is especially convenient since I've become addicted to a couple of video Pod Casts, Command-N and Diggnation and can now watch them in my living room.
The coolest feature and a reason for keeping me up late goofing off lately is the LaunchCast plug in which allows you to watch all of Launch Casts streaming music videos on demand. I was up much later than I should have been last night watching GnR, Jay Z and Motley Crue vids.
I hadn't used my X Box at all in maybe a year, now I think it will get heavy use. I highly recomend if you have an X Box to mod it and install this media center. Actually even if you don't have one I recomend you buy a used one and do this.