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The Illum (€1089 on pre-order) from Lytro – launched this week  – is a light field or ‘plenoptic’ camera that captures all the light in a given scene, giving all manner of ‘3D’ options, like  selecting the focal points of a picture after you’ve taken it.

They’ve been mucking about with the technology since the summer of 2011 and developed a predecessor to the current model back in 2012.

This one however, has a 40 (as opposed to 11) megaray sensor and is targeted at ‘creative professionals’ (you know who you are.)

The technology is also the focus of an app by Lytro that allows 3D picture viewing, not to mention ‘light field movie capture’ enabling focus switching within an animation.

MORE: Lytro’s new Illum camera brings light-field tech to pros (and it could change photos forever) (Venture Beat)

(H/T: John Gallen)

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Fiach Kelly, in the Irish Times, reports this morning that Environment Minister Phil Hogan has sought and received permission to obtain money from the Government in order for Irish Water to pay 1,100 voluntary redundancies.

Mr Kelly reports:

While the new utility believes it will need about 1,700 staff, it has signed service level agreements with the 34 local authorities who run the Republic’s water and waste water infrastructure. These legal agreements, which run up to 2026, involve about 4,300 local authority staff, whose cost is to be paid by Irish Water.

However, Mr Hogan’s memorandum provides more detail on the redundancies planned to bring this number down. They will cost some €39 million, which will be provided over a period between 2015 and 2016.

Irish Water gets funding for 1,100 redundancies (Irish Times)

Previously: Thicker Than Uisce

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[Education Minister Ruairi Quinn]

Today INTO [Irish National Teacher Organisation]

Tonight ASTI [Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland]

Tomorrow: a bit of a lie in.

Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn was heckled almost constantly as he addressed the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland conference in Wexford this evening.

…Earlier, Irish National Teacher Organisation delegates rejected a proposal by Mr Quinn that higher level mathematics at Leaving Certificate level should be a minimum requirement for students wishing to become primary school teachers.

Honours maths though.

Seriously.

What was he thinking?

Earlier: Do The Maths

Quinn Heckled At ASTI Conference (RTE)

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Not really.

The now-clean, extreme capitalist  Jordan Belfort (played by Leo DiCaprio in 2013’s The Wolf Of Wall Street) is coming to Dublin to tell YOU how to get rich.

Early bird tickets €50.

First lesson right there.

The Real Life ‘Wolf Of Wall St’ Is Coming To Dublin (CollegeTimes.com)

Thanks Joanne and Kevin Whitty

 (ABC)

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