Like Magic: The Tech That Goes Into Making Money Harder To Fake
Imagine the Founding Fathers walking across the bills in your wallet. Like something out of Harry Potter, increasingly complex animation technology is being developed for use in paper currency.
In 2005, shortly after earning a master's degree in electrical and computer engineering, Sam Cape was looking for work online when he came across a cryptic help wanted ad.
At his interview, he was shown something that blew his mind. Cape says it looked like film, but was three-dimensional and appeared to be moving. It was in fact a prototype of a he would go on to refine as the director of research and development for Massachusetts-based Crane Currency.
