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Lytro's "Light Field" Camera Adds Fabled Third Dimension to Photography - Core77

A new kind of camera, which allows you to take the photo now, and focus later at any point you like. There is demo in the web.


The principle is that, you record not the sum of all the light cones, but the individual light ray's vector direction. So that you can focus to any plane by ray tracing method.

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Scientists Use Nanowires to Spy on a Cell’s Inner Life | 80beats | Discover Magazine

Scientists now attach probes into a living cells, and measure electrical currents from inside.

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A HP Labs researcher claimed to have proved NP != P

Vinay Deolalikar, HP Labs researcher, claimed to have proved NP not equal to P. The website is his homepage in HP. You can find his 103 paper in pdf here. And he said he will post the final version when ready. Here is his email claiming to have solved the problem:

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Banana vending machine in japan!

 

Japan starts to sale banana using vending machine! But is there really so much people wanna eat banana? And will the banana go bad too quickly to be sold in the machine? We will see.

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Men tell more lies than women: up to 364 a year

And below is the top 10 fibs being told most by men and female:


 

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