Tag: HOLOGRAM

Travelers passing through security lines at the U.K.'s Luton Airport will now be greeted by two smiling, photogenic faces -- belonging to holographic announcers. According to the BBC, Luton is the world's first airport to introduce holographic staff members, as part of an experimental program designed to streamline the screening process and enhance traveler experience. The two holograms are ...

Hatsune Miku has topped the pop charts in Japan, sold out stadium concerts and become a legitimate cultural phenomenon. The interesting thing is that Miku doesn't exist -- at least not in any traditional sense of the word. Miku is a computer-generated avatar that performs songs with the help of a live band. But unlike say, Gorillaz, a cartoon band that merely serves as the public face of an ...

We're still waiting for flying cars, laser guns and teleportation devices, but it looks like we can scratch one childhood dream off the list: touchable holograms. According to the NTDTV report posted after the jump, researchers at Japan's Tokyo University have managed to concoct holograms that not only react to touch, but that also create the sensation of touch, itself. Apparently, and not ...

Well, the U.S. Treasury Department is at it again. We all remember when paper money last changed -- when the locket-sized portraits of the presidents blew up into those off-center, plus-size cartoons we now have, and when all those watermarks and "security strips" started to make a $20 bill look like the Las Vegas strip. While we have missed the stately symmetry of those old bills, though, we ...

In the past, holograms served no real purpose. Sure, they've always been cool to look at, but that's pretty been it -- until now. Reuters reports that a group of Japanese scientists have developed technology that allows holograms to respond to human touch, opening up a world of uses for the 3-D images. The scientists at Tokyo University used ultrasonic waves and Nintendo Wii controllers to create ...

We've seen a myriad of display technologies come and go: CRT, LCD, SED, OLED, Plasma, Laser, and more. They've all had their respective day in the sun, even if they never really came to have an impact on the consumer market. Trying to figure out the next big thing is always a bit of a crap shoot, but Japanese researchers are expecting that by 2020 we could see holographic displays that could ...