Holography News articles from August 2005

Holography News archives from August 2005

Holotek and Holo-Source partner for US market.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
August 1, 2005... Chinese wide-web hologram manufacturer Holotek Technologies Ltd and long-time American embossed hologram producer Holo-Source have set up a joint US venture, Holo-Source Materials Company (H-SM), to market the former's holographic films for...

InPhase demos storage prototype and raises $32M.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
August 1, 2005... InPhase Technologies, a Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies spin-off based in Colorado, has raised $32.1m in a third round of funding, while demonstrating a prototype holographic data storage system which it hopes to bring to market next year. Its...

US 6614566: process for holography involving skip-sorted hologram storage.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
August 1, 2005... Abstract: The invention relates to a skip-sorted spatial multiplexing holographic storage technique that addresses the problems of cross-talk, image distortions, and physical change of the medium encountered in current recording processes...

HoloTouch selected for FastTrack.(COMPANY NEWS)
August 1, 2005... HoloTouch[TM] Inc, the company that has developed a holographic interface for contactless control devices, has been selected for Connecticut Technology Council's FastTrack scheme for promising high-technology start-ups. FastTrack is an advisory...

HI sales boom in first half.(COMPANY NEWS)
August 1, 2005... Hologram Industries is one of the few companies that provides the market with a taster before publishing its half year figures. After excluding the non-recurring engineering business with China (its contract with China Banknote Printing and...

Braxted holography lab available.(COMPANY NEWS)
August 1, 2005... The holography lab at Braxted Park in Essex, UK is available, following the decision by Colour Holographics to move its filming and origination to new premises in London's Docklands (see HN Vol 19, No 6). Braxted Park is a Georgian mansion set...

PROMA Technologies.(PEOPLE IN THE NEWS)
August 1, 2005... Tom Kura has been promoted to General Manager and Terry Mosley to Sales Manager of Vacumet Paper Division which now includes the assets of PROMA Technologies, the holographic and metallized paper company (formerly Van Leer Metallized Products)...

Applied Optical Technologies.(PEOPLE IN THE NEWS)
August 1, 2005... Steve Harwood, former sales manager of Applied Optical Technologies, has rejoined the company after an intervening spell with security printer Seareach.

CFC International.(PEOPLE IN THE NEWS)
August 1, 2005... Mark Lamb and Tom Richards have left CFC International. Both had originally been with Northern Banknote, which was acquired by CFC in 1997.

AET Inc.(PEOPLE IN THE NEWS)
August 1, 2005... Marty Aleksis, holographic product manager of US-based film producer AET Inc. has left the company to join a start-up equipment business in the pulp and paper packaging industry in Vancouver.

DigiVU OVDs from Sherwood.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
August 1, 2005... Sherwood Technology Ltd, a UK company that has developed a range of photosensitive and polymer compounds which undergo a permanent colour change under exposure to UV or IR light, has launched a new overt security feature for brand protection....

Embossed hologram in-line inspection system.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
August 1, 2005... TecScan Electronics Ltd, a South Wales company that specialises in the design and production of print inspection equipment, has developed two systems for the in-line inspection and quality monitoring of embossed holograms in production. The...

Optware finances HVD, launches $1 storage card.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
August 1, 2005... Optware Corp, the Japanese developer of data storage systems, has announced that it is to raise $14m in equity to accelerate the development and launch of its Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) holographic storage technology. The equity will be...

Ver-tec's silver halide fingerprint security: Ver-tec Security Systems Ltd, a young company in Cambridge, England, is developing a silver halide volume reflection hologram identity system called the Biometrigram" which it aims to have ready to market next year. The company is aiming at the passport and ID card market, but also sees its method being adaptable to product protection.(TECHNOLOGY PROFILE)
August 1, 2005... Ver-tec was founded in 2002 by Ben Bowmaker to develop modern security solutions. He was previously working with Martin Richardson at The Hologram Image Studio and now serves as the chief operating officer of Ver-tec. CEO is Johnnie Sam, who...

Not such a hot summer.(STOCKWATCH)
August 1, 2005... Last month I commented on just what a quiet period it had been but while it wasn't a good period for the share dealers it wasn't bad for the companies we track. All but two of the seven had experienced rises in their value and although Hologram...

Excellence in Holography Awards: record interest in Holo-pack*Holo-print.(AWARDS)
August 1, 2005... The closing date for applications for the annual Excellence in Holography Awards, sponsored by Holography News, is September 15 and the IHMA, the awards' organisers, have issued a reminder for companies to ensure their applications are in by...

CSIRO's Exelgram.(10 YEARS AGO)
August 1, 2005... The Australian research organisation, CSIRO, introduce the Exelgram as a development of its previous Pixelgram diffractive authentication and anti-counterfeiting device. A particular feature of the Exelgram is that it comprises diffraction...

Exhibitions and conferences.(Calendar)
August 1, 2005... Diffractive Optics 2005 September 3-7, 2005 Warsaw, Poland www.eurocongress.com.pl Labelexpo Europe September 21-24, 2005 Brussels, Belgium www.labelexpo.com Holo-Expo 2005 September 27-29, 2005 ...

Holo-World--major exhibition planned.(CONFERENCES)
August 1, 2005... Claus Cohnen, president of the 3D-Lab in Hamburg, Germany, is planning Holo-World, a major hologram exhibition to tour in 2006/07 in celebration of the 60th anniversary of Dennis Gabor's theory of holography, which he developed in 1947. The...

International Symposium returns.(CONFERENCES)
August 1, 2005... After an absence of nearly ten years, the International Symposium on Display Holography is to return. It will be hosted by Technium OpTIC (Opto-electronics Technology and Incubation Centre) in Wales (UK) from July 10-14, 2006 and will be...