Holography News articles from March 2008

Holography News archives from March 2008

Toppan-Hitachi link for world's first hologram/RFID combination.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
March 1, 2008... Japanese companies Toppan Printing Co, Hitachi and Hitachi Chemical Co have linked up to develop the first combined hologram and contactless integrated-circuit (IC) chip, marketed under the name RFID Crystagram. There have been previous...

XYZ goes down a RabbitHole.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
March 1, 2008... Last year, XYZ Imaging of Montreal changed its name to RabbitHoles Media Inc (RMI), when the 3D colour digital holographic printer and the imaging business was sold to RabbitHoles Holdings Corp of Ottawa. XYZ was a division of the Ottawa-based...

Pronova launches HoloPro 4 and HoloSign.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
March 1, 2008... German large-scale holographic display specialist ProNova GmbH has launched the latest version of HoloPro, as well as new applications for its HoloSign technology. HoloPro[TM] (Holographic Projection Screen) is a patented holographic...

Holographic cell phones from Samsung?(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
March 1, 2008... Samsung Electronics, the Korean consumer electronics giant, has filed a US patent application which hints at what could be in store for cell phones in the future. The application--US #20080039151--has the title 'portable communication...

Rewritable holograms break new ground.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
March 1, 2008... Most of the new technical developments we report in Holography News are incremental, but occasionally one comes along which is groundbreaking, opening a new route for holography. Savas Tay, his colleagues from the University of Arizona College...

Holographic Security Concepts evolves from HLC.(COMPANY NEWS)
March 1, 2008... Long-time Minnesota trade supplier Holographic Label Converters (HLC) has ceased operations, but Sonia Burman, its office manager, has established Holographic Security Concepts Inc (HSC) with some of HLC's assets, inventory, equipment and...

60 years of holography.(COMPANY NEWS)
March 1, 2008... To mark the 60th anniversary of the invention of the hologram, Holography News has been running a series of faux-contemporary' articles on some of the major developments, as if we were actually reporting on them at the time. To date, such...

No place to hide.(STOCKWATCH)
March 1, 2008... The financial and stock markets around the world are not only in turmoil, but in uncharted waters. There may be some lessons to be learned from the past but very few 'experts' would bet on their analysis of what is to come right now. ...

Harriet Casdin-Silver: 1925-2008.(OBITUARY)
March 1, 2008... American holographic artist Harriet Casdin-Silver died of pneumonia on 10 March. She was a pioneer of the use of holography as an art medium, bringing her sculptural aesthetic, her enquiring mind, her feminist instincts and her joy in the...

Exhibitions and conferences.(Conference news)(Calendar)
March 1, 2008... FSEA National Convention April 10-12, 2008 Scottsdale, AZ, USA www.fsea.com 5th Pan European High Security Printing Conference April 16-17, 2008 Prague, Czech Republic www.cross-conferences.com DRUPA 2008...

API buys Astor.(10 YEARS AGO)
March 1, 2008... In March 1998 the lead item in Holography News was the purchase of Astor Universal, a division of the Markem Corporation, by API Group plc for $49.8m. Markem's core business was in equipment, especially in-line coding equipment, and it had...

Light impressions tech transfers.(20 YEARS AGO)
March 1, 2008... In the March 1988 edition it was reported that Light Impressions had entered the holographic technology transfer market. According to the report, LI had already sold one hologram production system. As an origination and embossing company, it...

Valor electric fireplace with fuelbed hologram.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
March 1, 2008... Valor Fires, a division of the Baxi Group (one of Europe's leading home heating companies) has introduced the Dimension range of flame effect electric fires, which use a hologram to provide an apparent full-depth coal fire-bed--a compact unit...