Oscar shock as bad habits go on screen  By Will Knight March 8,
2005  In Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, the eponymous
subject keeps his youthful looks while the vagaries of age are
visited upon his portrait in the attic. Now a digital version of
Wilde's idea is being developed to show you what you will look
like in five years if you don't exercise and consume too much
junk food and alcohol.  At Accenture Technology's lab in Sophia
Antipolis, near Nice, in France, a flat-screen LCD TV linked to
a set of cameras and a powerful image-processing computer
replaces the portrait described in Wilde's novel.  Initially the
system acts just like a sophisticated "mirror" in which an image
captured by a wireless camera is displayed in front of you. But
that's just the start. Its main purpose is to conjure up a
computer-modified image of the effects of overindulgence at the
press of a button, says Accenture lab director Martin Illsey.
Once the computer has built up this profile, a different
software package w