Silicon Valley star-up
Lytro is releasing a new kind of camera that will change the way pictures are taken: the company is calling it 'light-field' technology. Rather than focus the image on a standard sensor, this technology also records the angle of the light which allows the picture to be refocus after the fact.
Its a little oddly shaped and has very few controls: on/off, shutter, and zoom. The memory is fixed (no SD card).
An example of what you can do with this technology:
Same picture, different subject is put in focus. With a regular camera, this would be two different pictures (good luck getting BOTH cats to stay in the same location).
The company has a
photo gallery, with some of the pictures you can change the focus on. There is a picture of
a Nixue Tube clock
Here are a couple of articles:
Technology Review
CNet
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