Although holograms have been a possibility for decades—the first hologram was developed in the early 1960’s following the development of laser technology—many might still associate them more with ...

Akonia Holographics, a startup in Longmont, Colorado, spent years trying to make holographic data storage work. It didn’t succeed, but now it found a new use for the same technology. The company now ...

The film "Introduction to Holography" explains the principles of holography, focusing on how it differs from traditional photography by creating three-dimensional images. It discusses the role of wave ...

The difference between holography and photography can be summarized perhaps most succinctly as the difference between recording the effect photons have on a surface, versus recording the wavefront ...

On a flight from Amsterdam to Paris in 1965, French Astrophysicist Jacques Blamont had a sad tale to tell his traveling companion. Because of faulty equipment, every photographic plate of groups of ...

We all want Star Trek’s holodeck. And we’re all going to keep waiting for that, because frankly, most of what makes the Star Trek holodeck awesome is probably impossible. Or, at least at our current ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...