A USB headset/mic will work, although you’ll need some sort of extension cable unless you plan on sitting 3 feet in front of your television.
Doesn’t everybody do that?
too bad you can’t just charge it via bluetooth! 
I blew off the USB head-set mic thing. Instead I just went ahead and pulled the trigger and got a bluetooth dealio for the PS3. My only problem now is I’m feeling too squirrelly to use it.
Despite my roundly ignored plaintive review of Skate 2, I have fallen into addiction on it. Unfortunately, I think I’m the oldest person in the world playing it by a factor of about 3. Every online session I spend is filled up with the following conversation:
User 1 - How old are you?
User 2 - 13. How old are you?
User 1 - I’m 16. How old are you User 3?
User 3 - I’m 15.
I can’t wait to be the guy that pops in and says, “Hi. Fellas … I’m 43. Wanna play?”
Mine mostly plays GTA IV and Rock Band, gonna try out Mercenaries 2 today (got it for like $10.) Also plays an occasional Blu-Ray movie, and it’s a neat DVD player too. If you hit the square button (I think), it will give you a bunch of thumbnails from various points during the movie, so you can visually skip to any part you want.
I’ve played with TVersity, and my network or router doesn’t seem to like it. It works for a while then craps out.
However, I do have one of those little USB-powered Western Digital hard drives attached to my PS3, full of all my digital photos and a bunch of MP3s and video. I like having my media on an external hard drive because if you copy them to the internal PS3 hard drive, you lose the directory structure.
Oh - forgot one of my more important peripherals - the BluWave Remote!
I have a Logitech Harmony remote, which I couldn’t live without. Before my PS3 arrived, it controlled my TV, DVD player, AV receiver, cable DVR and Xbox 360. Click “Watch TV” and it switched all the devices to the appropriate on/off state, correct inputs, etc. Click “TV w/Surround” and it switched the reciever on to surround sound, etc.
Then I turned my 360 in for a PS3. Well - it operates via blutooth, which the Harmony remote is not. When I wanted to watch a bluray, I had to hit “Play PS3” on the remote, then manually turn on the PS3 with the controller, as well as do all the navigation via the controller. Then I got a Nyko Blu-Wave remote. It plugs a dongle into the USB port, and lets you use it accompanying remote (or any smart remote you’ve programmed) instead of the controller. The only catch is that you still can’t turn the PS3 on via remote (you can’t turn things on via USB), but it’s the next best thing.
The third best thing would be to buy the PS3 bluetooth remote, which does turn it on, but sticks you with another remote control. Six of one, half a dozen of the other if you don’t care about that, though.
I play many different genres of games, and after reading many reviews and accolades, I finally bought Flower on PSN. The musical score rivals anything you’d find on any great movie soundtrack. As for the gameplay, it’s truly a unique experience. I am very pleased with it - definitely worth $9.99.
I used to use Tversity but now I use PS3 Media Server.
http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/
I found PS3 Media Server to be easier to configure and it handles things like MKV and DVD ISOs much more gracefully. I found that with Tversity even though it’s supposed to transcode whatever the PS3 can’t stream natively it still got hung up on quite a few DIVX that weren’t encoded to the PS3’s liking. That may have changed since I used it last.
With PS3 Media Server when you come across one of these “Corrupt Data” AVIs you can easily force it to transcode, and it works!
It too can do the MP3/Picture streaming too.
Logitech is releasing their PS3 Harmony Adapter this month! It will let you use your Harmony to control your PS3, including powering on and off.
Nice! The BluWave is about $15 - that adapter comes in at $60. But that’s the introductory price, you have to think that it’ll come down, or at least a refurb will come back into the market at something reasonable.
I just downloaded a fun game that I’d thought I’d share here.
It’s called Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic.
The link above is to a gamespot review of the game. It’s not rated so great, but all I can say is that I’ve had fun with it, and it’s FREE.
I eschewed the TVersity path for plain old network file sharing. I just picked a directory in Windows to share across the network. The PS3 will automatically index the appropriate files in that directory and display them in the corresponding (video, music, photos) PS3 menu. The PS3 menu sometimes lags a bit at first if you have a lot of files, but it works well enough. I’ve got my file server hooked into my AV system though, so I usually just end up playing through that instead of the PS3.
I’m recommending Super Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars. It started out at $14.99 and was worth the price then. Price drop to $9.99.
It’s basically soccer with cars. Cars that FLY! 20 single player challenges and online multiplayer up to 4v4. Plus you can play the developers from time to time.
Scored a spectacular goal? Made a spectacular save? Record your replay and upload to youtube directly from thegame.
Sorry for the infomercial tone of the post but it really is a great game and they are working on new content as we speak.