Internet Archive: Wayback Machine. 3D Printer Solar Cells Can Now Be Printed on Anything, Even Paper and Fabric. Photo by Patrick Gillooly via MIT News Researchers at MIT have figured out how to print photovoltaic cells on every-day materials like paper or fabric -- and the process is practically the same is printing this article out on your desk printer. MIT reports that a team of researchers has published a new paper in the journal Advanced Materials detailing how solar cells can be printed as easily and as cheaply as "printing a photo on your inkjet" thanks to new special inks. "The sheet of paper looks like any other document that might have just come spitting out of an office printer, with an array of colored rectangles printed over much of its surface.
But then a researcher picks it up, clips a couple of wires to one end, and shines a light on the paper. Instantly an LCD clock display at the other end of the wires starts to display the time," reports MIT news. The paper solar cells can even be folded, and still be useful: JellyCam - Stop Motion. New camera lets you focus photos after you shoot. Lytro unveils a camera that lets the photographer focus after the fact Camera uses multiple lenses to capture more light than a normal camera Investors have already bought in, to the tune of $50 million No release date, price for the Lytro camera have been announced (CNN) -- An auto-focus camera? Not new. Not exciting. A camera that lets you focus after you've already taken the photo? And lets you focus anywhere within the image you want? Oh yeah -- it can also transfer a regular photo to 3-D. Lytro, a company launched Tuesday by 31-year-old entrepreneur Ren Ng, promises that camera will be released soon.
"I am thrilled to finally draw back the curtain and introduce our new light field camera company, one that will forever change how everyone takes and experiences pictures," Ng wrote on the startup's blog. Apparently, some sharks are buying the buzz. Camera focuses photos after shooting Lytro calls the result "living pictures. " Experiment with this focus software on Lytro's site.