Orb Networks today at CES unveiled software that essentially turns a PlayStation 3 into an Internet TV portal. The software enables any connected Blu-ray player, including PS3s, to access movies and TV via services like Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon Video on Demand.

Joe Costello, CEO of Orb Networks, describes the software as a less expensive solution than other solutions, like Google TV. “The combined cost of a Blu-ray player and Orb BR software is less expensive than most of the other Internet TV solutions, like Boxee and Google TV, while providing more capabilities. With more than eight million connected Blu-ray players and 40 million PS3 players already in homes, the market opportunity for Orb BR is huge.”

The software comes in at a reasonable $19.99 USD price tag, and has helpful features like the ability to control the service through a smartphone app or on any computer. You’ll have to download the free Orb Caster software, and/or the Orb controller app for smartphones to operate the service. Then, insert the provided disc in to your Blu-ray player or PS3, and you’ll be ready.

Orb BR supports 720p and 1080p. The Orb controller app features an easy-to-use global index of TV shows. Simply type in the name of the show you want and let Orb find it for you—you won’t need to specify where to look, it could find it in Hulu, ABC, or CBS, for instance.

Source:-http://www.psu.com/New-software-turns-PS3-into-an-Internet-TV–a010373-p0.php

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The colour of our faces depends on the concentration of melanin in the skin, but it also alters with our expressions and emotions because of changes in blood flow.

Drinking, exercising, and going out in hot or cold weather also have an effect.

It takes experienced artists to add such natural variability to animated characters, and even then the results can be imprecise, reports New Scientist.

To automate the process, Tim Weyrich of the University College London and colleagues took images of volunteers’ faces using a device that measures how light is scattered and absorbed by the skin.

They recorded changes in colour as the volunteers made different facial expressions, after they ran up and down nine flights of stairs, and after they drank a pint of beer.

The team then combined all these images into a model of how skin colour changes.

Source:-http://news.oneindia.in/2010/10/24/newsoftware-adds-realistic-changes-in-animated-characters.html