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more about #holograms more comments → Sam Scott Given: one, that fist this is just BARELY holographic, in fact, it's the same cool tech that Johnny Chung Lee has been promoting for ages. It's just had trac... more » FrankenPC: Hellholo deck! more » mjschmidt: Okay, so then the question must be asked... if you are in a committed, monogamous relationship, and you interact with a holographic person is a sexual... more » Coolmodo: I can't wait, think of all the Pornograms we will watch (and grope)! more » strider_mt2k: That looks really remarkable. Just one more step towards completely immersive environments. Very cool. more » PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: @Porn industry: +1 more » admoseremic: "Hey, how many songs can you hold on that holographic storage disk?" "All of them" more » bosskev: "Data drawn through chemical reactions floats [as] if suspended in gelatin."So, with this new storage technology, you'll get the most massive bang-for... more » thejackamo: So if the data is stored via chemical reactions, what does that do to data degradation over time? more » ripfire: Why does it have to be "disc"? more » OMG! Ponies!: I'm not impressed. They've been talking about this since 1977. As you can see, holographic storage has been around for years. more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: Stimulated Light Utilizing Technology or SLUT. more » Nick: my guess it will be a another six years or more before we see any product using the tech. i heard of blu-ray starting around 1999 or so and if it foll... more » dsh: Now the real work begins: Finding a product name that could not possibly be offensive in any target market. more » Torley: That's like Second Life. :) more » -
#holograms
Holograms Are Ready for Your Groping
The premise of a realistic hologram is no longer so far-fetched, but what about actually touching the thing? Researchers from The University of Tokyo have found a way. More » -
#storage
How Holographic Storage Works (Spoiler: It's a 3D CD)
GE just announced that they're fitting 500GB of data on discs the size of DVDs through "holographic storage" technologies. It's OK to be a bit lost. This clip explains the idea in more tactile terms. More » -
#storage
GE Makes Holographic Storage Breakthrough For Cheap(er) 500GB Discs
Sheinhardt WigsGE engineers have announced a breakthrough in the formerly retardedly-expensive field of holographic storage: by making the holograms smaller, they can squeeze 500GB on standard-sized optical discs. More » -
#concepts
The Holodeck, As Re-Imagined in 2009
Star Trek TNG's holodeck is a staple of geek lore, but its interface was designed 20 years ago. Bruce Branit's World Builder is a short much along the same technological theme, but made today. More » -
#theoreticalphysics
Physicists Believe Our Universe Is One Big Hologram, And They May Have Spotted the Pixels
It's not until you acknowledge the world's greatest physicists do you realize how fundamentally useless our role here is. You and I will not uncover the secrets of the Universe. Luckily, someone's working on it. More » -
#military
US Army to Push X-Files Tech Development, Invade World of Warcraft
The US Army is ramping up the development of technology right out of the X-Files, "making science fiction into reality" as Dr. John Parmentola—Director of their Research and Laboratory Management—puts it. The list of things currently in the works is amazing: Regenerating body parts on "nano-scaffolding", telepathy through electronic impulses in the scalp, and self-aware virtual photorealistic soldiers that can be deployed in the battlefield through "quantum ghost imaging". To test these they want to use them into a massively multi-player online games like World of Warcraft or Eve online: More » -
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#uberholograms
MIT Team Developing Eye-Catching, Super Realistic 6-D Imaging Device
3-D images? Peshaw. Those are so 2007. What humanity needs now is what MIT researchers hope to provide very soon: super realistic "passive 6-D reflectance field displays" that not only look great, but also respond to stimuli, like lighting conditions. And, not only will these uber images do all that and a bag of chips, they'll be able to change over time as lighting conditions change, with "no electronics or active control" from we mere humans. Oh, and the displays will respond the changes in viewpoint, meaning these visual wonders will have a creepy degree of interactivity to them too (read: legitimate holograms). More » -
#holograms
Bill Gates Holographic Appearance Brings Inevitable Palpatine References
Bill Gates addressed a 400-person audience at the World Congress of Information 2008 in Kuala Lumpur, which is nothing unusual except for the way he did it: he appeared using a 15.1-foot holographic projection, probably starting his five-minute pre-recorded speech saying "I'M GOING TO EAT YOU ALL!!!" followed by a megalomaniacal laughter. Sadly, that didn't happen and he looked more like a giant-sized Yoda than an Oz-bound Palpatine. More »
