Holography News articles from January 2011

Holography News archives from January 2011

Consumer Power unbalances Power Balance.(Company News)
January 1, 2011... Last August, we reported on the business that had developed around the 'life enhancing' properties of wristbands containing holograms (HN Vol 24 No. 8). California company Power Balance cites a number of celebrities who wear its product to...

Holographic telepresence wars: MIT progress.(Editorial)
January 1, 2011... Members of Michael Bove's Object-Based Media Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT - see HN Vol 21 No 5) have announced a new system that can capture visual information using off-the-shelf electronics, send it over the internet to...

You win some, you lose some.(Editorial)
January 1, 2011... OK, we give up! Some battles you can win, some you can't. And science and etymology can't win against the might of the media, the wish-fulfilment of the public and the PR distortions of an imaging company. The outcome is that the word 'hologram'...

Hologram patent trends in 2010.(Hologram Patents)
January 1, 2011... IHMA members receive a monthly patent newsletter, a summary of all relevant patents filed in key countries, which is drawn up by Honnorat Recherches. The IHMA kindly allows Holography News access to this bulletin for occasional reviews, such as...

Kseniya 'leather' holograms.(Hologram of the Month)
January 1, 2011... Up and coming fashion designer Kseniya has launched a range of luxury leather handbags, evening bags and wallets which feature large embossed holograms with geometric patterns, designed and originated by Rob Munday of Spatial Imaging. Kseniya,...

New year, same story!(Stockwatch)
January 1, 2011... It's a new year but nothing much seems to have changed. The markets remain nervous and the euro crisis still looms large even though Portugal surprised the markets recently in selling bonds--but the cost of borrowing was around 7%. This is...

Global Forum on pharma AntiCounterfeiting.(Events)
January 1, 2011... The sixth Global Forum on Pharmaceutical AntiCounterfeiting, the only event which brings together all stakeholders in the fight against fake medicines, will take place in London, England, on May 4-6 2011. Several security hologram producers have...

Foilmark's Shrink-Wrap patent.(10 YEARS AGO)
January 1, 2011... Early 2001 was a dry period for big news in holography (maybe everybody was attending Practical Holography at the Photonics West symposium!), but nonetheless there were some items worth revisiting in Holography News [R]. One being the issuance...

Elvis on TV Guide.(10 YEARS AGO)
January 1, 2011... Another item that resonates for the editor of Holography News reported that International Holographic Paper, Brian Monaghan's company, had provided four holographic covers for US magazine TV Guide, the holograms showing four stages in the career...

Bridgestone's integrated facility.(20 YEARS AGO)
January 1, 2011... In early 1991, Bridgestone Graphic Technology opened a new multi-capable integrated hologram production facility in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The 50,000 sq ft facility was equipped for narrow-and wide-web embossed hologram production, as well as...

API moves out of Chinese production.(Company News)
January 1, 2011... API announced on January 28 (as we went to press) the completion of the sale of its interest in Shanghai Shen Yong Stamping Foil Co. Ltd, its 51%-owned foil manufacturing operation based in Shanghai, China, which it had set up in 1999 (see HN...