Take a bite out of that: Ground-breaking apple hologram looks good enough to eat - 8th Apr 2011

Technological breakthroughs and the word ‘apple’ seem to be synonymous these days but this latest advance has nothing to do with the computer giant.

Japanese researchers have found a technique to create full-colour holograms and the discovery could transform 3D television and movies.

Unfortunately, it’ll be a few years before you can view a 3D film without glasses as this apple is just two centimetres across.

Even so, the hologram is one of a kind, with ordinary white light used rather than lasers to create an image that doesn’t change colour when you move your head.

In a paper published in the new issue of the Science journal, Osaka University’s Satoshi Kawata explained how his team used electronic waves caused ‘surface plasmons’ to create this remarkable image of an apple. Read More