12月12日のできごとは「Lytro ILLUM発売」「初代PSP発売」ほか：今日は何の日？
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2004年、ソニーが「プレイステーション・ポータブル」を発売
2014年、auがVoLTEサービスを開始
2014年、ASUSが「Chromebox」を一般発売
2014年、加賀ハイテックが「Lytro ILLUM」を国内で発売2014年：後からピントを変えられるライトフィールドカメラ「Lytro ILLUM」
写真のピントを後から変えられるものはスマホでもありますが、これはあくまで画像処理による疑似的なものです。これに対し、多数のマイクロレンズを使うことで複眼のように少しずつ角度…" https://japanese.engadget.com/2018/12/11/12-12-lytro-illum-psp/
The Pixel 3 has 2018’s best smartphone camera
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" Smart shoes may sound like a recent innovation, but they're really old hat -- Puma's RS-Computer shoes were tracking your running stats in 1986, well before wearable tech was a hot trend. And Puma wants to remind you of that fact. It's reissuing the..."
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" The next time you rent a car, you might need to show your face instead of your ID. Hertz announced today that it is teaming with security startup Clear to introduce Fast Lane, a biometric check for car rentals. The system -- which is the first of its..."
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" Privacy advocates aren't just concerned about warrantless device searches at the border because of the potential for deliberate abuse -- it's that the officials might be reckless. And unfortunately, there's evidence this is the case in the US. Home..."
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