Lytro, The Camera That Can Focus After You’ve Taken The Picture!

October 20, 2011

The Lytro pocket-sized camera offers a powerful 8x optical zoom and f/2 lens in an iconic design, creates interactive ―living pictures that can be endlessly refocused. The camera is available in two models and three colors, starting at $399.

The Lytro is the only consumer camera that lets people instantly capture a scene just as they see it by recording a fundamentally richer set of data than ever before. Lytro cameras feature a light field sensor that collects the color, intensity, and the direction of every light ray flowing into the camera, capturing a scene in four dimensions. To process this additional information, Lytro cameras contain a light field engine that allows camera owners to refocus pictures directly on the camera. When the Lytro’s living pictures are shared online, the light field engine travels with each picture so anyone can interact with them on nearly any device, including web browsers, mobile phones, and tablets—without having to download special software.

The Lytro’s sleek design was created with simplicity in mind. With no unnecessary modes or dials, the camera features just two buttons—power and shutter—and has an intuitive glass touchscreen that lets pictures be viewed and refocused directly on the camera. While the Lytro camera houses complex technology, it is fundamentally easy to use, opening new creative opportunities for anyone interested in sharing their favorite memories with friends and family.


What Would Stephen King Say To His 16-Year-Old Self?

October 20, 2011

If you were to write a letter to your 16-year-old self, what would it say?

In the book, Dear Me: A Letter to my Sixteen-Year Old Self, 75 celebrities, writers, musicians, athletes, and actors have written letters to their younger selves that give words of comfort, warning, humor, and advice.

These letters present intimate, moving, and witty insights into some of the world’s most intriguing and admired individuals. By turns funny, surprising, raw, and uplifting, this singular collection captures the universal conditions that are youth, life, and growing up.

Read the excerpt below from the prolific author Stephen King and find out what words of wisdom he would say to his teenage self.

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Bob Seger Releasing Career-Spanning Two-CD Set, Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets On November 21, 2011

October 20, 2011

On November 21, Capitol Records will release a 2 CD Bob Seger ‘best of’ package that will run the length of his full music career. The set will feature completely new remasters of each song, all from the original master tapes.  The album is called Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets.

The 26-track CD will even contain Seger’s Holiday track, “Little Drummer Boy”, the mono version of “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man” and two of Bob Seger‘s current hits, “Downtown Train” and “Hey Hey Hey Hey (Going Back To Birmingham)”.  This collection will also be made available as a Digital Download.

The tracklisting is as follows:

Disc One:

1. Old Time Rock and Roll

2. Hollywood Nights

3. Night Moves

4. Mainstreet

5. Roll Me Away

6. Turn the Page

7. Her Strut

8. Still the Same

9. You’ll Accomp’ny Me

10. We’ve Got Tonight

11. Like a Rock

12. Fire Lake

13. Tryin’ to Live My Life Without You

Disc Two:

1. Rock and Roll Never Forgets

2. Against the Wind

3. Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man

4. The Fire Down Below

5. Travelin’ Man (Live)

6. Beautiful Loser (Live)

7. Shakedown

8. Shame On the Moon

9. Katmandu

10. Little Drummer Boy

11. Wait For Me

12. Hey Hey Hey Hey (Going Back To Birmingham)

13. Downtown Train


The 10 Worst Songs of the 1970s

October 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Rolling Stone Magazine asked their readers to vote on their least favorite songs of the 1980s. Voters picked classics like “Puttin’ On The Ritz”, “Mickey” and “Rock Me Amadeus” and many people on the Internet violently disagreed with the choices.

Now the magazine has posted the results of the 10 worst songs of the 1970’s HERE. See if you agree? What songs are missing?


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