Lytro cameras: Focus pictures after you take them

Lytro introduces a new 'light field' camera that may change the face of photography.

Through fireworks, a 'Transient Rainbow' illuminates the night sky

The ‘Transient Rainbow’ firework technique uses 1,000 shells in 15 seconds.

Trendy threads from waste

Pratibha Syntex could lead in the next textile wave: low-waste, recycled cotton.

Can Move and Kinect save a sagging video game industry?

A new crop of games, led by PlayStation Move and Xbox Kinect, steps up motion-sensing technology.

The end of the free Internet?

Asking online users to pay for content hasn't worked so far, but iPads and smart phones may change their minds about the free Internet.

How a computer program became classical music's hot, new composer

'Emily Howell' is a computer program that composes classical music by following rules of music its programmer taught it.

Climate change as art

From data, delight: An artist pulls her sculpture and music from the climate change numbers in the news.

More telling than rumors on iPad and Kindle? Job listings.

How new wanted ads from Apple and Amazon reveal long-term strategies for secretive products like the iPad and Kindle.

3-D glasses get a makeover

New home entertainment technology aims to transform a 3-D viewer’s experience.

For Olympic Games, London dreams of a Cloud castle

The Cloud, an ambitious structure planned for 2012 Olympics, has airy spheres, spiral walkways, data projection.

What the future of the auto industry will look like

Surging demand for cars in rapidly growing nations will mean a robust car industry in 20 years. The US will have a piece of it – though smaller than today – and the models it turns out will be much greener as the iconic industry reinvents itself.

3D looms into movie universe

Success off 'Monsters vs. Aliens' confirms digital 3-D's draw, and studios are leaping at the opportunity.

How microbes can power America’s future

Scientists use tiny organisms to create fuel, viruses to make batteries.

Nanotechnology may have found its Henry Ford

Tiny DNA robots could be the future of assembly lines.

Could ‘liquid wood’ replace plastic?

Germans engineer an organic alternative from a paper waste product.

Better mousetraps: How inventors plan to change football

Working in garages or big labs, hundreds have tried to ‘improve’ the game. Few have succeeded.

US Air Force uses new guided bomb in Iraq

The GBU-54 – used for the first time in Iraq on Aug. 12 – will help US forces hit moving targets and minimize civilian casualties, say military officials.

A bright idea for easing traffic

New method to time traffic lights could help Americans burn less gasoline.

Where’s the beef? Try the lab.

Researchers attempt to make meat without killing livestock.

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