Hands-On: Lytro Light-Field Camera Offers Flip Simplicity, Futuristic Features

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Hands-On: Lytro Light-Field Camera Offers Flip Simplicity, Futuristic Features We finally get a chance to look at Lytro's new futuristic light-field camera, and it's pretty darn cool.
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Ice Cream Sandwich: 7 More Cool Features You've seen the big improvements, but digging deeper we found another around of key additions to the new Android OS.
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus Smartphone and Android Ice Cream Sandwich OS: 6 Questions All you want to know about the hot new Galaxy Nexus, its beefy Android operating system, and what it means to older Android phones.
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Nokia Raising Curtain on Windows Phone 7 Devices Next Week Microsoft's Windows Phone boss said Nokia plans to reveal its first batch of the phones at the Nokia World event.
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Kobo Vox 'Social eReader' to Battle Kindle Fire, Nook Color The battle of the color eReaders is about to begin, and now there's a new contestant.
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Microsoft Debuts AT&T's Mango-Powered Windows Phone 7 Handsets AT&T will be selling the three phones, from HTC and Samsung, during the upcoming holiday season.
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Asus Eee Pad Transformer and Transformer 2 First Tablets to Get Ice Cream Sandwich OS Asus's newest tablet and its predecessor will use the much-anticipated Android 4.0 operating system--code-named Ice Cream Sandwich.
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Asus Unveils Eee Pad Transformer Prime Tablet Asus hasn't announced whether its 10-inch Android tablet will be powered by Honeycomb or Ice Cream Sandwich.
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Apple's Siri vs. Android's Voice Actions: Feature Showdown The race for better voice commands is on -- who will win?
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As Ubuntu Linux Turns 7, 'Precise Pangolin' Planning Begins Version 12.04 will be Ubuntu's fourth Long Term Support release, focusing squarely on refinement and stability.
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Battlefield 3: Your Xbox 360 is Now Officially a PC DICE confirms you'll have to install Battlefield 3 to your Xbox 360's hard drive if you want to access the game's high-definition textures.
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OCZ Releases First 1TB Laptop SSD with 'Instant On' Boot Up The 'instant on' feature increases boot times over previous OCZ solid-state drives by 50 percent, the company said.
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Ice Cream Sandwich: 4 Innovations Worth a Closer Look Face Unlock and Android Beam are among many of the features on the Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android that debuted on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
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Amazon Answers Privacy Concerns About Silk Browser A privacy group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, was happy with some replies, but 'pretty serious' issues remain.
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Google Beefs Up Security for Its Searchers Google adds SSL security coverage to searches by logged-in members.
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Inside the iPhone 4S: Is It a Work of Art? Apple spared no expense putting together the iPhone, even on the internal design and materials used. But don't drop it.
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Google's Brin Initially Thought Google+ Circles Feature Was Too Complicated Sergey Brin initially considered the Circles content-sharing mechanism on Google+ to be too complicated, but after he started using the site he changed his mind.
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Tips for Reaching Out to Twitter's 50 Million Daily Users Your business cant afford to ignore Twitter anymore. Make it work for your company without wasting time.
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Microsoft's Ballmer Knocks Android, Commends iPhone Ballmer's got tough words for Google's mobile operating system.
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Lytro Cameras On Sale Now: What You Need To Know Breakthrough camera technology from start-up Lytro doesn't come cheap or without some big catches. Here is what you need to know.
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