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Holography Pioneer Passes Away

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday January 7, 2006 @05:28AM from the obi-wan-you're-our-only-hope dept.

Hal-9001 writes "The New York Times has an article on Emmett Leith, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan and inventor of three-dimensional holography, who passed away on Dec. 23, 2005. Professor Leith and his coworker Juris Upatnieks displayed the world's first three-dimensional hologram at a conference of the Optical Society of America in 1964."

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DIY Holograms by maxrate · 2006-01-07 05:55 · Score: 3, Insightful

I was speaking to a friend about a kit I saw 10 years ago at a local science store that let one build they're own holograms. Anyone seen anything like this recently?
It came with a bunch of optics, a laser, sandbox, film, etc. I wonder if Bill Gates was bored one weekend and started shooting the laser at some of his Windows XP cd-roms?! Those CD's are incredible, they are one big hologram!