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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Spending on video downloads to surge: study

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    Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs gives a preview demonstration of a device to allow consumers to stream movies, music, photos, podcasts and television shows to their home entertainment systems at an Apple media event at the Yerba Buena Center of the Arts theater in San Francisco, California, September 12, 2006. Annual consumer spending on Internet downloads of movies and TV shows will top $4 billion in 2011, up from just $111 million last year, according to a study released on Wednesday by Adams Media Research. REUTERS/Dino Vournas

    BOSTON (Reuters) - Annual consumer spending on Internet downloads of movies and TV shows will top $4 billion in 2011, up from just $111 million last year, according to a study released on Wednesday by Adams Media Research.

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    "The Internet is going to revolutionize the distribution of video," says Adams Media Research President Tom Adams.

    The growth will be fueled by the introduction of hardware devices such as Apple TV, a $299 box that converts videos downloaded from the Internet into signals that can be played on high-definition television sets.

    Apple Inc. is selling those boxes on its Web site and says they will be shipped later this month.

    Adams Media Research is betting that video downloads will ramp up gradually as Apple TV and similar devices win acceptance among consumers.

    The market researcher forecasts that sales of video downloads will total $472 million in 2007, $1.2 billion in 2008, $2 billion in 2009, $3.1 billion in 2010, then hit $4.1 billion in 2011.

    It also predicts that advertiser spending on Internet video streams to PCs and TVs will approach $1.7 billion by 2011.
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