Thursday, March 21, 2013

Matt's Mantle: Zoom, Enhance? Haha. Yeah, Right. Like That Will Ever Be a Thing... What? It's a Thing? Oh My God, Am I a Replicant?

Remember that time in 1989 when you were watching Blade Runner for the first time.  And you were both simultaneously thinking to yourself, 

"This movie is kind of slow, but like, way more interesting than I thought it was going to be.  Holy crap, look at the production design.  Nergasm!"  

And then a ways into the movie Deckard went all "Zoom, Enhance" on some crappy photo with what looked like a VHS photo reader and you thought to yourself, 

"Haha, no way.  That's stupid. Not even highly impressionable 1980s me would buy that for a dollar."  

And then the scene got even more ridiculous when at the end of the scene he enhances it beyond space time and see's what's going on behind an object in the photo.  And you said to yourself,

"BULLSHIT!  NOT IN A MILLION YEARS WILL THAT BE A THING.  NOT EVEN DR. MANHATTAN COULD PULL THAT SHIT OFF."  Well, now it's possible. Presenting the Lytro Camera.


This bad boy allows you to take a photograph, and then later readjust the focus after the fact.  Not to mention, it will allow you to slightly readjust perspective to see behind objects.  I'm pretty sure this is powered by the hearts of orphan children through some black magic sorcery.  But at the end of the day we can all agree that there's too many orphans in the world, so it's really win/win. Check out the Lytro Official Site to see it in action. 

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