Andre Yoskowitz
19 Sep 2008 15:39
Sony has announced the launch of their "Life with PlayStation" service which will give users live global news and weather as well as 3D views of the globe and even cloud imagery.
The information will be provided from partnerships with The Weather Channel (the weather updates), the University of Wisconsin-Madison (cloud imagery), Google News (the news feeds) and finally the The Earth Television Network (live webcam images of cities).
The application is free and Sony R&D head Noam Rimon adds that the entire service is integrated with Folding@home so "this means that while you're taking a stroll on Life with PlayStation, you're automatically helping Stanford University to work towards curing diseases such as Alzheimer's and various types of cancers."
Sony also adds it plans to add "a wide variety of interactive content and channels" to the service in the future.
To add the service, simply head to the XMB and click on the Folding@home logo.