Holography News articles from January 2009

Holography News archives from January 2009

Hologram technology holds out hope for 'telemedicine'.(Company News)
January 1, 2009... Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a prototype cell phone equipped with holographic technology that is capable of remote testing water quality and monitoring the condition of HIV and malaria...

Scotland's new notes a first for Depth Image.(Company News)
January 1, 2009... Clydesdale Bank, one of three note issuing banks in Scotland, has unveiled the designs for a new family of notes, its first in 20 years. The notes will be the first of any series to include world heritage sites as the principal design theme...

Schipper and Rako settle.(Company News)
January 1, 2009... Although it was never officially announced, it became generally known that in November 2007 German embossers Hologram Company Rako and its founding CEO Wilfried Schipper parted company. This was not an amicable split, with damaging...

HI 2008 sales up by 26%.(Company News)
January 1, 2009... Hologram Industries (HI), the French hologram embossing company, has reported that sales for 2008 were [euro]26.7m, a rise of 26% on 2007. Sales in the final quarter were up 11% compared to 2007, which also saw a very strong showing in the...

Einstein hologram award for Bill Gates.(Company News)
January 1, 2009... Bill Gates has been awarded the first Einstein Award from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the American Friends of the Hebrew University. The award, inspired by the legacy of Albert Einstein--a founding father of the university--and his...

New photopolymers for terabyte holographic data storage.(Technology News)
January 1, 2009... A team at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has developed a new class of plastics suitable for holographic data storage. According to Craig J Hawker, Professor and Director of the Materials Research Laboratory at UC Santa Barbara,...

TSSI launches low cost reader.(Technology News)
January 1, 2009... TSSI has launched a new ergonomically-designed portable reader for OptiGard[TM] its food grade compliant high security foil that combines a hologram with a covert, machine-readable coating. The company claims that new reader is low cost and...

Optical Document Security 2010.(Technology News)
January 1, 2009... The next Optical Document Security conference will be held in San Francisco on January 20-22 2010, the week before SPIE's Photonics West. The first Optical Document Security conference, in January 2008, exceeded expectations in both the...

A Year in Headlines.
January 1, 2009... January API announces losses and plans to refinance the company; new regulations in China require certification for all security products; Optaglio moves into garment labels; Hologram Industries reports 16% increase in sales for 2007;...

Breaking the boundaries & fitting pieces together for the holographic value chain; At the Holo-pack*Holo-print[R] conference UHR's Sales & Marketing VP, Peter Vivona, gave a paper setting out a path for a growth future in display holography. Holography News[R] invited him to turn his interesting and provocative thoughts in to an article.(Viewpoint)(Conference news)
January 1, 2009... The display holographic market should be on the verge of explosive growth. Holograms and holographic recording material is a platform technology. With appropriate catalysts in place, boundaries will be broken and pieces will fall into place,...

Patents of the year 2008 - R&D trends.(Special Feature)
January 1, 2009... Everybody is aware of the importance of patents in the industry in general. Successful innovations can guarantee 20 years of a high margin market and sometimes royalty fees, and this is particularly true in the holography business, where the...

Holographic window thread makes US debut.(Hologram of the Month)
January 1, 2009... Starting with this issue of Holography News, each month we shall be featuring a new commercial application for holography. This could be a project that opens up a new sector, an innovative new use, a particularly prestigious contract or...

Toxic to radioactive!(Stockwatch)
January 1, 2009... So 2008 neither came in quietly nor left quietly. As it came in we were all familiarising ourselves with new terms like 'sub-prime' and 'toxic debt' and as it went out we were bracing ourselves for a new list of large-scale corporate crashes...

Large format Holograms.(10 YEARS AGO)
January 1, 2009... Ten years ago Holography News[R] didn't publish in January, so we've looked at the December 2008 bumper issue, which reported that the value of hologram sales in 2008 was estimated at round $900m, with growth of 35-40% over 2007. The core...

Applied holographics' US expansion.(20 YEARS AGO)
January 1, 2009... 20 years ago, we reported that UK company Applied Holographies had acquired (through its US subsidiary) the California company Advanced Dimensional Displays from its founding owners Craig Newswanger and Chris Outwater. Specialising in...

Exhibiitons, conferences and meetings.(Diary)(Conference news)(Calendar)
January 1, 2009... Tax Stamp Forum February 23-24, 2009 Budapest, Hungary ww.taxstampforum.com Security Document World March 26-27, 2009 London, UK www.sciencemediapartners.com Pan-European High Security Printing Conference...

RI strengthens US operations.(People In The News)
January 1, 2009... Reconnaissance International, the leading source of intelligence for the global authentication industry, has made two key appointments in the USA. Alan Walp joins as Vice President, Americas. Alan has a 25-year global commercial career...