Word: holograms
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...created--as is everything else in this movie except the stars--by computer. And at least one of the stars is too: ace news hen Gwyneth Paltrow and crack pilot Jude Law are real enough, but Laurence Olivier, in his first role since his death in 1989, is a hologram...
...nonexistent brand. Counterfeiters apparently planned to fool unsophisticated buyers by printing the packaging in the Thai language-Thai products are respected in Cambodia. Other fakes, however, come in packages that are nearly indistinguishable from the real products. "Even if there is a new security feature, such as a hologram, the counterfeiters can reproduce it in one or two weeks," says Samuel Porteous, managing director for greater China at Kroll, an international risk consultancy...
...earlier experiments on light storage...stored only the ‘signature’ of the light pulses in a process somewhat similar to creating a hologram,” Bajcsy said. “Thus, during the storage time there were no signal photons present in the medium...
Benton, who earned his master’s and Ph.D. from Harvard and later taught at the University, invented the rainbow hologram, which is now widely used to prevent counterfeiting because of how simple it is to discern a fake hologram. In 1983, MasterCard International became the first company to use these holograms on their cards; today, they are used by every major credit card company...
During this time, he was working for the Polaroid Corporation, and he later went on to become the company’s senior scientist. It was also at Polaroid where Benton invented the rainbow hologram...