Hologram Industry News

LG Electronics India today announced the launch of its 3D monitor on 17th July, 2007.
The� “3D monitor is a remarkable combination of quality and technology and is so advanced that the LCD monitor is capable of constantly displaying the same image for 7 years operation without any change in color or display quality.
With the remarkable 3D technology, LG has made it possible for consumers to experience the power of three dimensional images without using 3D glasses, the effect is that of watching a hologram movie wherein the images seem real and appear to “pop” out of the screen.
Source:http://www.indiaenews.com/pressrelease/20070717/61182.htm

Timothy was presented with his prize by Jon Bentley of The Gadget Show. A schoolboy from Belfast has won a top design award for a hologram-operated portable music player. Timothy Quigg, 15, from Grosvenor Grammar School, won a laptop computer and specialist software for winning the Audi Design Foundation prize.
His OrbIt music player design saw off the challenge of efforts by more than 4,000 pupils from across the UK.
He says the technology his design would use “has already been developed or is theoretically possible” in the future.
Competition entrants were given six challenges including the design of a device that would solve environmental problems, a craft that can travel at extreme speed and a healthy snack that reflects the personality of your role model.
Timothy chose to think of a design for playing and accessing music that could actually become a reality in the near future.
His OrbIt music player - a futuristic, circular, hand-held device - is operated by a micro-holographic array of “virtual” buttons.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/5371350.stm�

A� device that stores holograms using a liquid crystal film controlled electronically has been created by researchers in Singapore. They hope that future versions could be used to store large amounts of digital data in small areas, or to manipulate living cells with light.
Holographic memory can store more information than memory technologies like CDs and DVDs because information can be encoded in three dimensions, in the form of light interference. In fact, holographic data disks are already on the market (see Start of the hologram wars), although these can only be written to once.
Xiaowei Sun and Liu Yanjun at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, have now taken a step towards creating a rewritable holographic memory device. It consists of a cell - around 7 millimetres square - containing an 8-micron-thick layer of liquid crystal and polymer.
Source: http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn11964-switchable-hologram-promises-memory-boost.html