The very first light fields were captured at Stanford University over 15 years ago. The most advanced light field research required a roomful of cameras tethered to a supercomputer. Today, Lytro completes the job of taking light fields out of the research lab and making them available for everyone, in the form of the world’s first Lytro Light Field Camera.

ipadio combines the telephone with the blog to create an audio “phonecast” which is streamed Live to the Internet.

You can phonecast from any phone, anywhere in the world - no need for a computer or even access to the Internet.

Phonecasts can be cross-posted to social media and blogging platforms, embedded on any number of websites, or securely integrated with corporate databases and CRM systems.

Phonecasts can be converted to text, geo-located and put on a map, and either streamed live or moderated (plus about 100 other options).

As well as making phone blogging an easy means of communication for people around the world, this combination - the flexibility & power of the Internet plus the reach & simplicity of phones - has made ipadio ideal for business communications and operations.

We need to stop assuming that pure market forces will blissfully take us towards an innovative future. We need a deeper understanding of where we are going in order to encourage more innovation. Raw capitalism is fantastic at improving quality and driving down costs but it also rewards a monopolistic lock-in that tends to discourage companies from playing nice with others.

The entire purpose of this "Beyond Mobile” blog is to discuss and explore unlocking the future of smart devices. I feel strongly that this is being held back by a number of forces, but a critical one is being able to liberate web applications on handsets.

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The mobile web community is a crazy, amazing, determined bunch and they are fervently working on making the mobile web reach it’s potential. In many ways this community feels a bit like barbarians at the gate. What will hold this crowd back isn’t their energy but the foot dragging that we’ve already seen in this industry. The Browser Ghetto isn’t an accident, its more ‘abuse by neglect’ on the part of Apple and Google. They’ll get around to it, but only eventually.

The PaperPhone will be officially be unveiled at the Association of Computing Machinery's CHI 2011 in Vancouver, Canada by Roel Vertegaal—an associate professor of Computer Science and director of the Human Media Lab at Queen's University in Canada.

In an exclusive interview, Vertegaal said, "This is the future. Everything is going to look and feel like this within five years. The computer looks, feels and operates like a small sheet of interactive paper. You interact with it by bending it into a cell phone, flipping the corner to turn pages, or writing on it with a pen. This is not a maybe. This is a definite. This is what your phone will look like."

I wish I can link it to my Evernote account!

Finding solutions to the challenges posed by climate change will require exemplary leadership from the business community, which has a critical role to play in the transition to a low carbon economy. Companies need to be more proactive by seeking out new technologies and different, more innovative ways of working instead of waiting for regulations to force them to act. Are today’s CEOs ready to provide the kind of inspirational leadership required? How can CEOs best implement these changes, turn crisis into opportunity and keep their companies profitable?

(video is 3min long only !)