The original iteration of Move was an ingenious design: PlayStation Eye locked onto the glowing sphere via calibration and then judged depth owing to the size of the sphere in its 2D field of view.

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"The overall economy at the upper sphere is doing very well, " says Jerry Gore, chief executive officer of Gore Design Completions Ltd. in San Antonio, Texas.

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The company's engineers are confident that their modified chip-design software will allow previously flat circuits to be wrapped around the surface of a sphere.

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