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Lytro just launched its first light field cameras. This is a revolutionary technology that eliminates the need to focus by enabling people to focus on any element in the picture after it has been taken.

Today, Lytro launched its first light field cameras. This is a revolutionary technology that eliminates the need to focus by enabling people to focus on any element in the picture after it has been taken.

Apple’s recently launched iPad, a supposedly revolutionary device, but while some people were enthusiastic, many others were quite underwhelmed. People in Japan however, have been using Ipads for around six years, in the form of adult diapers.

Free online services are great, but they do carry risks. What happens if some such service accidentally erases all your data? Online backup services are an answer. Backupify is one such service, and it is completely free until January 31st.

People are becoming increasingly afraid of “germs” on their food. Conventional wisdom has it that food is a natural product, and as a result, contamination with (harmful) micro-organisms is unavoidable. Japanese companies have found a solution.

Freedom of speech is an important realisation of modern secular governments. Secularism is probably a necessary condition for freedom of speech, but not a sufficient one, as Belgium now demonstrates by preventing its citizens to visit certain websites.

A friend sent me a disturbing e-mail warning against answering cell phones while they are being recharged:
Is this story true?
For all we know, it is possible that someone was talking on his recharging cell phone while it exploded, but that doesn’t mean anything at all. 
Only one part of a cell phone can explode: the battery. [...]

Sony and Google have reached a deal under which half a million copyright-free books will be made available for the Sony Reader device.

A nanotechnology swimsuit that cannot get wet, has just been unveiled by Solestrom International, a company that also pioneered swimsuits with built-in protection against UV rays.

The Stockholm police has seized a computer server containing what they believe to be the largest quantity of pirated material ever discovered in Sweden.