Playstation 4 Clear

via Yanko Design by Chris Burns

Forget all your Playstation 3s. Forget your Playstation 3 thin models with multiple lovely colors, forget even the earlier design by this same designer, Tai Chiem, that PSP 2 concept he whipped up last year, no! Check this thang out. It�s the Playstation 4. Tai Chiem�s Playstation 4 concept: that�s how you know it�s wild. And with clear material and minimalistic aesthetics in play, you�ve got one Tai-tastic amalgamation, to be sure.

SO! PS4! What�ve we got here? Bluetooth integration, plastic/glass backs and middles. LCD screen(s) on both the controller and the system itself. The same classic aesthetic bone structure for the controller that PS has always had. The same ability to turn the system on it�s side (I always thought that was a super-simple super-genius feature of the PS series.) And the continuation of the standard �CD� disk size for games.

PlayStation Eye Research - Auto Generated Avatars

via Gizmodo by Danny Allen

Sony Labs has demoed some advanced facial recognition that it's researching for the PlayStation Eye. The system figures-out gender, knows where you're facing, and even tracks mouth movement. And eventually, the tech will make its way into new PS3 games.

Sony Labs has been researching this technology for a while. I think most people are familiar with it from Smile Shutter in the Sony CyberShot, and autofocus with face detection. But now, we've migrated this technology to PS3, and made it available as an SDK.

Through its various points of detection, the system can recognize individual faces and overlay a different model for each person. And that's where things get a little more interesting.