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- ell0bo, on 08/12/2008, -5/+216Isn't that picture at least 2 years old now?
- Cancerkitty, on 08/12/2008, -0/+97"Three men appear through the body of Tokyo University graduate student Kazutoshi Obana during a 2003 demonstration of optical camouflage technology." According to the caption right below the picture, five.
- morcheeba, on 08/13/2008, -1/+63Inaccurate. That picture is of a different technology: the guy has a coat made out of projector screen material, has a camera behind him, and a projector in front of him projecting the camera image. It's simple technology anyone could do at home, and it doesn't involve light-bending or negative refraction that the article describes. Also, you have to line yourself up with the camera and stay very still - move your head a little and the background behind him won't move, destroying the effect.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/30/tech/mai ... - elcalrissian, on 08/12/2008, -5/+60Thats a 5 year old jacket. With advances, those Japanese could already be lurking in dark subways in America, waiting to exact their revenge Hiroshima style!
- jp12380, on 08/13/2008, -1/+51The pic isn't even of the same technology. That other technology is done with camera's an a reflective material.
Still cool but not what the article is talking about. - lostsymphonies1, on 08/12/2008, -8/+52Now we can all be like Harry Potter.
- FTLJohnson, on 08/13/2008, -1/+40What's particularly interesting is how that picture has ZERO to do with the article... The article is about new metamaterials using nanotechnology to create new structures capable of bending light.
The picture, is of a phenomenally stupid bit of technology that puts cameras inside a suit that send signal to a computer that can tell a projector to shoot an image of what is behind the wearer onto the front of the jacket... So, you know... they'll be invisible... except for the large projector, beam of light, every bit of person sticking outside of the jacket, and well... mostly the jacket itself too, since projector screens don't create a very high contrast image in broad daylight. So yeah, the picture is of a 'technology' that is actually a several year old gimmick (probably to get military funding, since they would be the only one's silly enough to fall for thinking it's useful) YAY... We stand out like a sore thumb, but at least people will see that we're TRYING to look invisible as long as we stand near this projector.... - cinder, on 08/13/2008, -2/+28This picture came installed with my AOL v1.5.
- ljin, on 08/12/2008, -5/+31But you can still see the cloth?
- Phyltre, on 08/13/2008, -3/+26Creepy mostly due to the number of times it has resurrected itself on Digg. It's a zombie post.
- freshyill, on 08/13/2008, -2/+24Oh come on, that picture is ancient.
- dsully215, on 08/13/2008, -1/+21Wear
- Cancerkitty, on 08/12/2008, -9/+29Man, that's a creepy looking picture.
- fegul, on 08/13/2008, -3/+23This is actually as old as the Iraq war.
- inactive, on 08/12/2008, -3/+22Look out Kevin Bacon.
- mecharabbit, on 08/13/2008, -1/+18Kevin Bacon was in Flatliners with Julia Roberts, Julia Roberts was in Erin Brockovich with Albert Finney, Albert Finney was in Murder on the Orient Express with Ingrid Bergman, Ingrid Bergman was in Casablanca with Claude Rains, who was the original Invisible Man in the 1933 film. Epic win in less than six degrees!!!
- ophello, on 08/13/2008, -6/+24Ok, since there seems to be a lot of confusion in here, let me clear the fumes of ignorance:
what is depicted in the photo is a completely impractical system which involves nothing more than a reflective material, a projector, and camera behind the subject. It is pretty much a glorified parlor trick and has ZERO practical use.
Wake me up when we have real invisibility without the use of infrared projectors and video cameras. sheesh. - retral, on 08/13/2008, -1/+16Wasn't the picture used as a sham a while back? iirc, it was done with a camera and a projector -- use the camera to receive what's behind the person, then project the video on to the front of the person..
- MattNF, on 08/13/2008, -0/+15@gregMF:
You win the award for having an eerily similar name to mine. - rahulkolasseri, on 08/13/2008, -0/+15here's the '08 pic http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakha ...
- headzoo, on 08/13/2008, -6/+22Holy crap.. how old is this?
- AmyVernon, on 08/12/2008, -4/+17I totally want one.
- Dumbledorito, on 08/13/2008, -3/+16Good thing they used a 2003 picture. I'll bet the '08 version just looks like whatever is behind the cloak.
- wolferz, on 08/13/2008, -1/+12Ok... listen up you halfwits. What is described in the article and what is shown in the photo are two different things.
The photo is of a guy wearing reflective material and using a projector and a camera to create the effect a cloaking device would have... but it's just a parlor trick. the picture is old as the hills and it pretty lame in general.
HOWEVER. What is talked about in the article is something completely different. There are no pictures in the article of this new technology despite what is said in the title any synopsis HERE ON DIGG. The technology may or may not be real however this is related to another article talking about work towards this goal roughly 6 months ago, so I dare say it might be credible.
If you want to have issues with this have issues with the other halfwit that claimed the picture was part of this technology or the author of the article that used a picture of a completely unrelated "technology."
So a big helping of READ THE ***** ARTICLE for the lot of you. Thank you and have a wonderful day. - insomniac8400, on 08/13/2008, -1/+12Why did they use such an old picture.
- tas08, on 08/13/2008, -1/+10I feel like I've seen this picture before, months, maybe even a year ago... Is it just me? Anyone else?
EDIT: ooops, I'm not crazy! The caption says it's 5 years old! I should have rtfa first... sorry. - gregMF, on 08/13/2008, -1/+10you win award for ***** comment
- nbulp, on 08/13/2008, -0/+8First comment on the site:
"As a middle aged white guy, I've been invisible to politicians and the media for years now." - Vich, on 08/13/2008, -0/+7Ninjas may not be invisible, but they certainly aren't visible. You should already be worrying as Ninjas can strike at any moment.
- Junkey, on 08/13/2008, -1/+8PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN!! Wait does that still work here?
- crownedgriffin, on 08/13/2008, -0/+7Of course you cannot see it. It's invisible!!!1
- wolferz, on 08/13/2008, -0/+6yes... which kinda proves the point that things aren't bad... people are. Anything you can make people can abuse.
- chubbybubba, on 08/13/2008, -1/+7I once bet my friend I could turn invisible and slap him in the face. I then proceeded to poke his eyes and slapped him hard on his right cheek. He still hasn't paid me my twenty bucks. In fact he hasn't really talked to me since.
- carve, on 08/13/2008, -4/+10Yeah- and the "technology" in the pic is something any of us could whip up in an afternoon. It is just a jacket made out of a movie screen with a camera behind him sending video to a projector in front of him. BFD.
- Justice101, on 08/13/2008, -0/+5I hate it when they put some random picture with an article it has nothing to do with besides being on a slightly similiar topic. :
- Quizboy, on 08/13/2008, -0/+5Actually, that is a very misleading caption. If you had no idea that the picture was just video projected onto a jacket you would likely assume it's from the same type of experiment.
- Protoss, on 08/13/2008, -2/+7That pic isn't from this experiment, read the caption!
- DoctorFaust, on 08/13/2008, -0/+5That picture doesn't have anything to do with what they're working on at UC Berkeley.
They probably can't show you a picture of the new stuff because it's invisible. - wolferz, on 08/13/2008, -0/+5By JOHN JOHNSON JR. Los Angeles Times
Aug. 12, 2008, 12:02AM
nope, sorry it's not a five year old story. - wolferz, on 08/13/2008, -1/+6so the second oldest story posted to digg is what? 23 hours old?
and btw... I hereby grant you The Idiot of the Day award. I was tempted to give you the idiot of the month award but since i already gave it out this month you'll have to wait till next month. When you figure out why you might want to start by apologizing. - wolferz, on 08/13/2008, -1/+6Fumes of ignorance indeed. This is not an system using reflective material. Nor does it use a projector or a camera. What the article is describing in nothing short of amazing. This technique is not several years old. In this case what the article describes and what the picture shows are two different things.
*wakes you up by slapping you with a RTFA sign*
Next time read the article before calling other people ignorant. Thank you. - KniteWulf, on 08/13/2008, -0/+4I spent like five minutes looking for something in that picture >:(
- EskNerd, on 08/13/2008, -0/+4Or looking up schoolgirls' skirts.
- KingGorilla, on 08/13/2008, -0/+4Slimer?
- WoollyMittens, on 08/13/2008, -0/+4*****. The "invisible material" in the news lately is a 4 micrometer piece of grated salt deposit. And it only bent infra-red light.
- sylentmode, on 08/13/2008, -1/+5hehe, I remember watching a thing about this on the military channel. saying it was inspired by the movie the predator. From what I remember, I don't recall the alien running around with a buddy holding a projector.
- garrerc, on 08/13/2008, -0/+4I agree - what they're showing in the picture is a different technology - one that uses a projector and a highly reflective material (the coat). The article is about a (meta-)material with a negative refraction index which for the first time works in part of the visible spectrum. Two completely different methods mixed in a single article - poo on the LA times for confusing people!
- kaelyiesta, on 08/13/2008, -1/+5Holy *****. I was about to make a comment to celebrate the first composite metamaterials article that didnt mention harry potter and what did you have to go and do? AAAAARRRG!
And now I noticed that they mention klingons. I am jacks seething hatred. - wakarusensei, on 08/13/2008, -1/+5old pic is old
- Protoss, on 08/13/2008, -2/+5"Aug. 12, 2008, 12:02AM"
A day old...RTFA before bitching, don't just glance at the picture. -
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