Lytro

You’ve probably heard about Lytro, the camera that allows you to just snap a picture and instead of wondering where to focus at the time of capture, just select the focus...

The Lytro Light Field camera was probably the most exciting photography product that came out last year. Although it offers low-fi images, it takes photographs in a completely different manner to regular cameras, allowing you to choose and re-choose what element of your photo you want in focus...

Some of you guys might have heard of the Lytro camera , a camera which basically snaps photos first and allows you to focus on different parts of the image later. Pretty handy in a situation where you just want to capture the moment rather than worry about having the right focus. In any case...

Arqball has just released the FocusTwist app for iOS that lets you selectively focus after taking an image -- without investing $400 in a Lytro light field camera . It works by automatically taking several shots with different focus points from your iPhone's camera, delivering the best results if...

While we'll still have to wait a bit for Lytro powers to come to our smartphones on a hardware level, we can at least approximate the neat little camera's refocusing powers with what we've already got. And this is where FocusTwist for iOS steps in. More »

A recently released app in the Apple App Store promises the focus-shifting experience of a Lytro camera for a much smaller price tag. FocusTwist takes a series of images with different focal planes and allows users to choose a focus point after they have taken the photo. We take the app for a quick...

The executive previously led Ning and will remain affiliated with his most recent employer, Silver Lake Partners. [Read more]

The executive previously led Ning and will remain affiliated with his most recent employer, Silver Lake Partners. [Read more]

Light field camera maker Lytro is naming former Ning chief Jason Rosenthal as its new CEO. Rosenthal, who also worked at HP/Opsware, Netscape and AOL, takes over a company with a unique technology but lots of work ahead of it. Though its product is unlike those of rivals, it competes in the broader...

A little more than two years after launch, Path, the self-proclaimed “private social network” startup, is beginning to focus more on monetization. Hence the hiring of Kim Jabal as the company’s first CFO, who will spearhead the large task of eventually turning Path into a profitable service. Jabal...