Yep, I'm here in PC Magazine's Digital Village, trying to maintain connectivity long enough get a post up. I hope most of our regular readers are already here too, or on their way: The DigitalLife show is multitudes better than last year, with more exhibitors, more space, more everything. (At left is the show's best costume that I've seen so far. Alienware, in case you couldn't guess.)

We'll be reporting more soon, but I'll give a quick recap of what I've seen so far that impressed me. First, the Sony PS3 is here--and playable! And lots of different vendors have demos here for PS3 games that will ship this November. The new PS3 version of Sonic the Hedgehog from Sega looked terrific--fabulous gameplay and physics, but still maintaining the charm of the original. There's a Final Fantasy XII booth, where you can actually play the game. For mobile games, we got a demo of Pool Pro 2, from Namco, coming in December. It's a truly multiplayer phone game, with amazing graphics and lots of new features, including customizable tables and avatars.

The HotSeat gamer-chair guys are here, with a racing chair and a flight-sim chair. These aren't brand new, but I nearly had to pry Scott, our staff photographer, off the flight sim chair; he was immersed, to say the least!

A company called Elumenati is showing an inflatable immersive dome; you can project video inside, so it's sort of like surround-video. They also had MS Flight Simulator (a demo of the upcoming new version), but they said the domes have been used as portable planetariums too. They're mostly commercially used right now, but they hope to break into the consumer market as well. (I think I could just about fit one in my living room!)