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Verizon Files to Trademark 'Hologram'

Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless is preparing for the launch of a new device on its airwaves, one that might sport the name of Hologram when made available, recent reports suggest. Apparently, the carrier has just filed for trademarking the 'Hologram' name, which suggests that it is gearing up for a ne...

23 November 2011
13:33 GMT

Holographic Phone Calls Coming by 2015, IBM Says

Regardless of whether or not they prove true, predictions about what the future will bring are made all the time, and IBM just announced what it thinks will be accomplished by the year 2015. Each year, IBM performs a survey of 3,000 of its engineers with the goal of estimating five technological breakthroughs that w...

28 December 2010
08:37 GMT

3D Water Holograms via AquaLux 3D

A new projection system called AquaLux 3D was presented today by the Carnegie Mellon University. This is one of many approaches that have been tried - one more small step towards virtual-reality. The researchers' goal is to project three-dimensional moving images in a way that you can interact with them. Until n...

7 July 2010
04:50 GMT

Silverlight Now Supports Augmented Reality

The hologram, technically known as augmented reality, has been nothing but a dream until a few years ago, when a group of developers led by Philip Lamb developed a C-powered library (ARToolKit) able to handle dynamic viewpoints and then redraw a 3D object accordingly. Less than a week ago, on February 24, German .NET...

2 March 2010
06:20 GMT

SciFi 3-D LCDs Displays to Become Reality?

Holograms are ideal when it comes to storing three-dimensional images, but the problem is they can only be written once. Rewritable holograms would greatly improve the storing capacity of future personal computers and could also provide with the technology to create three-dimensional displays. A team of U.S. research...

7 February 2008
06:29 GMT

World's Biggest Holographic Screen Follows Your Eyes

The word hologram comes from Greek, with holos meaning whole and graphe meaning writing. A hologram is an advanced form of photography that allows an image to be recorded in three dimensions, in fact a recording of an interference pattern made by the interaction of two beams of light.A company in Dresden, Germany, ca...

16 June 2007
06:54 GMT

Microsoft Officially Confirms the Ghosts in the Windows Vista Hologram

Ghosts live inside the Windows Vista holograms. Microsoft officially confirmed this detail through the voice of Nick White, Microsoft Product manager. "An astute Windows user", as White put it, managed to stumble across the microscopic ghosts in the holographic image on the face of the Windows Vista Business DVD with...

14 June 2007
05:40 GMT

First Rewritable Hologram Using Liquid Crystals

A team of scientists in Singapore created a new device that can store holograms with the help of an electronically controlled crystal film. With some improvements, this could become a storage medium for increased amounts of data in small areas.Holographic memory is a technology used to store amounts of information a...

1 June 2007
13:51 GMT

X-ray Holograms reveal Secret Magnetism

Antiferromagnetism is a different manifestation of magnetism, where the spins of electrons align in a regular pattern with neighboring spins pointing in opposite directions. The antiferromagnetic materials are relatively uncommon and their properties are still not fully understood.Unlike ferromagnets, which have be...

7 May 2007
09:30 GMT

How To Make A Hologram

The word hologram comes from Greek, with holos meaning whole and graphe meaning writing.A hologram is an advanced form of photography that allows an image to be recorded in three dimensions, in fact a recording of an interference pattern made by the interaction of two beams of light. If two stones are dropped ...

18 April 2007
10:59 GMT


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