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did it start up just change the way that we all take and look at photographs why did Nokia hold a big launch party for a phone that's built on what it called a dead burning platform was it just a setup for the future something called sea ray hulu's for sale does anybody care is Google TV coming back as a gaming box and like that kid in math class who wouldn't shut up ever but then you kind of missed him when he was out sick believe me i had that kid in 10th grade we've got more iphone rumors for you that's right it's techno Buffalo's rumor roundup what is going on everybody thanks for tuning in to the roundup for today Friday june twenty-fourth 2011 i'm noah Kravitz editor-at-large for TechnoBuffalo and by for it before I tell you the story of that kid in precalc who seriously just wouldn't shut up ever but I'm esta my still like yeah I gotta find place in my heart for kids like that maybe because I'm one of them before we get to that for more on any of the stories we're talking about right now any of the latest going on in the world of technology product reviews opinion pieces news rumors all that stuff head on over to TechnoBuffalo com our facebook page our twitter feeds all that stuff and if you're hooked in this empire avenue thing like like I am I might need some help i'm getting addicted to this you can check out empire avenue as well NK 126 that's all I'm saying first off what is lytro and why should you care lytro is a Silicon Valley startup who just might have changed photography forever or at least until the next you know forever thing comes along the startup company that just came out of stealth mode earlier this week they had a party at an art gallery they've got stuff up now on their website samples in a YouTube video they getting all this press and basically what they've done is they've invented this thing they're calling light field technology that that it boils down to this as far as i understand it when you take a photo instead of focusing on something in the photo like the way we take photos now what light field technology does is it just captures all of the available light in the frame and so their slogan is shoot now focus later and so after the photos taken you can go to the photo digital photo obviously they have an invented refocus about paper so far as i know but you can go to the digital photo and you can click on whatever area of the photo you want the photo to focus on and then you can also double click to zoom in and zoom out so in their example they have some cool examples up on their site they've got examples of a photo where it's taken at a party and there's one person right up in front by the frame or by the the lens and then in the back of the frame there are all these other people is are things going on and so one of their examples it's pretty cool they call these things living photos because you know their whole shtick is after you've taken the photo you can you know you can focus on different things and zoom around in the photo and catch all the stuff you might have missed when you actually took the photo which is a big problem if you're a lousy photographer who shoots a lot of cell phone photos like yours truly you know shaky hands blurry photos are that kind of stuff but in these are in these light field photos what you can do is you can just focus on anything you want so they've got this example taken at a party and there's a woman up up in the front of the frame right near the camera but then in the background there are all these shady characters hanging around and they've got a little YouTube video where they go through showing how you know you can click on the different people in the background and they'll come into focus and then you can read dude with the tuxedo and you get a dog and a backpack and a beer and the other who was up with that guy anyway they've got some neat examples and some professional photographer friends I've talked to you know when they check this out they were like wow that's really interesting that's got a lot of potential so keep an eye on Lytro for sure no word yet on when we'll actually see these cameras and how much they might cost but definitely very interesting technology Nokia held a launch party earlier this week a launch event for a phone called the n9 the n9 honestly looks like a really really sweet piece of hardware is a touchscreen phone you know like Nokia does very nicely made comes in a bunch of different bright colors hi res display very high-end camera on the back you know etc Sarah looks like a great piece of hardware and honestly in a world of touchscreen phones this one actually stands out a little bit with kind of cool design but the thing is it's running the latest version of me go which by all accounts is a dead software platform me go was this joint partnership between intel and nokia and it had a lot of cool features the n900 came out a while ago and developers and hackers were kind of into it but you know never really sold well no key has been going through some hard times etc etc and then Nokia signed this deal with Microsoft to start making windows phone 7 devices and mego kind of left 4 dead even lumped into when the new CEO of neat of Nokia talked about how they were standing on a burning platform in the sea with symbian mainly simian but also me go thrown in there and how they had to jump off the platform and land on something else well the interesting thing is that after all this hoopla about this sexy phone really with no future then the CEO in a separate speech when and snuck in a little peek at this device codenamed see ray same phone running Windows Phone 7 go over to techna buffle you can get the pictures you can check it out really interesting stuff we know that the next version of Windows Phone 7 code named mango is coming out this fall all kinds of new features on it looks like it really brings windows seven you know catching up to the competition android and iOS in particular and we're all waiting for the first nokia hardware to come out because nokia still has reputation for building quality films with great reception and great cameras which are too you know really big features that people want so this sea ray phone really interesting how they kind of snuck that in a like nokia playing some games now you know maybe playing with the media a little bit getting some attention trying to build some buzz interesting start from nokia for sure hulu wet and put themselves up for sale that's really kind of all i want to say about it you know it's really interesting because all these things floating around now but as netflix going to buy and is Apple going to buy them who's going to buy them but then some interesting behind-the-scenes stuff apparently one of the things going on you know hulu they have all these licensing deals with fox and these other big TV studios who have who holds stakes ownership stakes in hulu and now there's some reports coming out about how well you know what we could sell hulu but we want to put a clause in that the hulu app will authenticate to see if you're a cable TV subscriber and if you are a cable TV subscriber then you can watch last night's Fox show you know right away but if you're not a cable TV subscriber you're gonna have to wait eight days before you buy the TV show I don't know who lo you know always a fan favorite but kind of wondering like well how is this going to play out in terms of a business model and and you know generating revenue and really being something viable that doesn't just kind of compete with the TV studios behind it things getting Messier now that hulu's gone they've gotten a couple investment banks to back their sale they're officially for sale be really interesting to see how this plays out speaking of TV back at the google i/o conference google talked a little bit about the next version of its google TV box which frankly when it came out last year did not set the world on the first version of Google TV there was some sony hardware there was some logitech hardware I myself bought one of the Sony boxes and then I took it back to the store at that 30 day return period because I just it was just it didn't do that much for me some people really got into it for sure but didn't sell well we sort of quickly swept back under the rug by Google and its retail partners but now the next version of Google TV based on Android the Android 3 platform which is promising to integrate Android across the different screen sizes the phones the tablets and the TV screen apparently google has sent out some developer boxes and these are just dead boxes very very limited quality so you can't read too much into this about what consumer hardware might look like but a bunch of extra ports that weren't on the original box and some interesting stuff going on and the chipset the manufacturer of the chipset it's an intel chipset the chipset promises support for 3d gaming and support robust support for flash and apparently the browser on this device is not the old Android browser but it's actually a full-on version of Chrome so very very interesting stuff also some interesting stuff going on with what Google is and apparently isn't allowing developers to do with apps that include a real-time TV feed because that's the whole thing about interactive TV the coolest stuff I've seen is when you've got you know like a baseball game being played and then you've got a graphic around it shows real-time statistics of you know the players up to bat or other you know other games going on or whatever it is so you've got that live TV element and then information thats related kind of going on in the same on the same screen and apparently developers are not yet getting access to do those kinds of things in this new developer build with these new developer boxes so interesting to see how that all plays out and if Google TV can reinvent itself and is a really good you know chrome and apps and 3d gaming could there be something there interesting stuff last but certainly not least in my tenth grade math class precalc this do do set next to me we'll call him at I don't want to reveal his real name that was Matt I love Matt great guy smart funny would not stop talking kind of like me on video camera except you know sometimes I was trying to pay attention in math class sometimes I was trying to zone out and Matt was just going going going going on but the days Matt wasn't there you know I missed him that's kind of how I feel that's kind of how a lot of people feel right now about iphone rumors oh no more iphone rumors but then when they're not there you're kind of wondering what's going on with iPhone well a new batch of rumors this week that point to not a minor update but actually a radical new redesign brand new boom boom boom iphone 5 coming out this September possibly this August I'm still thinking September but some rumors pointing to this August for a new iphone 5 you can go over to techna Buffalo check out you know all the details some render images you know suppose it what it's going to look like etc but kind of a radically redesigned back a teardrop shape back that narrows from top to bottom big screen kind of bezel a bezel or edge to edge rather almost a bezel lyst design and a little tidbits front end these rumors again about another iPad device I still say we're going to see another iPad this year shawn says no either way there'll be a funny youtube video out of it I depending on who wins are a little bit but perhaps some more evidence buried in the iOS 5 beta about an ipad 3 with a Retina display we'll see but at any rate the flames have been stoked matt is back in math class talking talking talking so to speak about an iphone 5 a big redesign coming this year you know most likely to coincide with the release of iOS 5 so stay tuned for that all right that's the time i got for right now definitely let us know what you think check out at checkout lytro really interesting stuff go over TechnoBuffalo read the report check out the photo galleries you know see ya let us know what you think about light show is going to revolutionize photography or is it just another gimmick yeah you know better than I do my name is Noah Kravitz the websites called TechnoBuffalo thanks to revision 3 for having us and I don't forget Monday Wednesday Friday ask the Buffalo whats the apps and rumor and up until next time thanks for tuning in we'll see you later