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June 2011
Lytro: New Camera Lets You Focus Photos After You Take Them
A new camera promises to radically change the way you take photos. Lytro, a Silicon Valley startup, has produced a camera that lets you focus a picture after you take it–over and over again. The camera relies on innovative new technologies that use light fields to create photographs that are manipulable post-shot. A light field [...]
Airbus Shows Off Transparent Jet of the Future
Someday, Wonder Woman won’t be the only one with an invisible jet. Airbus has been showing the media a virtual “Concept Cabin” of what it imagines its passenger jets will look like in 40 years. The showiest feature: The jets’ walls can turn see-through at the touch of a button, giving passengers a stunning view [...]
Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi Giraffes
Those radical giraffes are at it again…this time in outer space… CLICK HERE TO VIEW STAR WAR RETURN OF THE JEDI GIRAFFES
Carriers Sweat as Texting Cools Off.
NEW MESSENGING APPS FROM APPLE AND OTHERS MAY HAVE HIT FEES. By ANTON TROIANOVSKI Growth in the volume of text messaging is slowing sharply, just as new threats emerge to that lucrative source of wireless carrier profits. Cellphone carriers are in danger of losing very profitable text messaging fees. Kelsey Hubbard talks with WSJ’s Anton [...]
Rich media ads on iPad outperforming iOS, Android devices
June 7, 2011 Macy’s taps MEC Media and Medialets for its Kinder Aggugini campaign Rich banners and rich interstitials on the iPad are outperforming similar units on iOS and Android devices, according to a new in-application mobile rich media ad report from Medialets. The rich banner units showed an 8 percent engagement rate for iPads [...]