Holograms in the News - January 2008

Cool Stuff - 28 January, 2008 
Holographic water monster invades Japan
Columbia TriStar created this super-cool water-hologram to promote the release of The Water Horse

BBC News – 24 January, 2008 
Blue badge overhaul plan launched 
The badge is already being redesigned to show a user's gender and to include a hologram, making it harder to forge”

JournalGazette.net – 23 January, 2008 
Hologram device aids researchers  - 23 January, 2008
It’s no giant lying flayed on the floor at the University of Calgary in Alberta; it’s a 4-D hologram generated by a new medical research tool called CAVEman.

Fibre2Fashion.com – 22 January, 2008
La Griffe joins forces with Optaglio
La Griffe Internationale, the leading North African garment label manufacturer and Optaglio, an international hologram producer based in Britain and Czech Republic, have joined forces

New York Times – 20 January, 2008
The real price of fakes
Underwriters Laboratory, which gives a seal of approval to electronics, now uses an expensive, difficult-to-copy hologram

Sunday Telegraph – 19 January, 2008
The Queen: Now showing in 3D 
Chris Levine, the artist whose holographic portrait showed the Queen in a new dimension four years ago, is shedding further light on the royal countenance.

TradingMarkets.com – 16 January, 2008
Dai Nippon Printing adds tiny lettering to 3D
...will market a new hologram label that combines 3-D computer graphic images with microscopic letters

CNetNews.com – 16 January, 2008 
MacBook Air not only laptop getting touchy-feely

Pioneer has a GPS car unit that can be operated with gestures: touch the hologram for parking and the GPS unit tells you where the nearest lot is located

Trinidad & Tobago Express - 14 January, 2008
Beware of bogus blues
...the poor quality of the images of the Bird of Paradise on the front, marine platform on the reverse and the hologram of a silver shield on the reverse.

San Diego Union Tribune – 12 January, 2008
Great sums' lost to bootleggers of American pro sports gear
The NFL uses tactics, such as putting a hologram on its packaging, to guarantee authenticity

Daily Telegraph – 11 January, 2008
Tata Nano: Pride & Joy
A hologram of an Indian family four-up on a motorbike - a familiar sight in the country - reminded the audience that while the Nano might not have airbags

Inquirer.net (Philippines) – 11 January, 2008
Nokia warns consumers of fake handsets sold locally
“When you angle the hologram on the left, right, down and up sides of the logo, you should see 1, 2, 3 and 4 dots on each side respectively

9New.com – 8 January, 2008
Local company continues development in nanotechnology field
“One currently being developed is the storage of computer data on a three-dimensional hologram instead of a two-dimensional hard drive surface. Such a hologram would be able to store massive amounts of information.

Broadcast Newsroom – 7 January, 2008
EchoStar/Sling Unveil $39.99 DTV-To-Analog Converter 
NTIA is unveiling its coupon--more like a gift card with magnetic strip and security hologram--which households could start applying for--up to two per household

Wired.com – 4 January, 2008
New 3-D Technique Makes Posters Pop
Ron English’s iconic character Cathy Cowgirl was turned from painting to 3-D hologram using specially developed RGB-pulsed lasers