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macbookformeAug 11, 2010
Waaaaaaaaant!
clippclopAug 11, 2010
This article is being pretty optimistic...
hardwalkerAug 11, 2010
sorry to disappoint, but just the cloak itself is invisible, not the dude under it :(
jgzmanAug 11, 2010
FTA:
Silk-based invisibility would also allow doctors and radiologists to cloak various organs or tissues and see through them, said Omenetto, getting a better image of the organs or tissues usually hidden behind.
eshinnAug 11, 2010
@jgzman.
Can you imagine the Halloween costumes that thing makes possible?
wizardalienAug 11, 2010
@jgzman: I think they mean by reflecting tera-hertz waves on the silk and thereby measuring it to get an image. Similar to the way an xray works. Hardwalker is still correct. In the visible spectrum only the cloak itself is invisible, not the person under it.
trainofthought6Aug 11, 2010
eShinn - Floating Head Doctor comes to mind
tiakAug 12, 2010
@eShinn
I've always wanted to dress as a guy-wearing-a-hundred-million-dollars-of-material-you-could-literally-rip-off-of-me.
djlr181Aug 11, 2010
Anyone else think of Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalt?
manideeplankaAug 11, 2010
cool!
21grammAug 11, 2010
that's awesome, hope magic wand is next! :)
caramba421Aug 11, 2010
That's what she said.
Closed AccountAug 11, 2010
I put on my invisibility cloak and wizard hat...
ayeroxorAug 11, 2010
you don't f**k with an invisible rhino
kapsonAug 11, 2010
/Zapp Brannigan
I got my magic wand right here.
olie420Aug 11, 2010
Pics ?! meh.
dirtyfriesAug 11, 2010
Well there wouldn't be much to see...
bmorekarlAug 11, 2010
Ba-dum. Tsh!!!
olie420Aug 11, 2010
Really ? How come ? I don't get it... </s>
essarAug 11, 2010
It says a great deal about the average intelligence of Digg that people are voting you down, but voting UP the person explaining the joke you obviously intended.
f**king idiots.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
wildAug 11, 2010
Or about the craft of writing humor and how to structure a joke so people get it...
skillelAug 12, 2010
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Closed AccountAug 11, 2010
The joke is on you. There WAS a pic! It was inviiiiiisible! (using my spooky voice)
christoastAug 11, 2010
yeah we f**king get it, you still post pics, unless it's like that harry potter s**t, you can see it.
it's probably lame.
rolfAug 11, 2010
Would you really want to be invisible in a crowd? You'd get bumped into all the time.
clippclopAug 11, 2010
You also wouldn't be caught ripping a random chicks shirt off and snapping awesome pictures.
Think of the possibilities.
rudegarAug 11, 2010
well being that she too will be wearing an invisibility cloak you'd end up ripping a random guys invisibility cloak off
Closed AccountAug 11, 2010
yeah, i will be in the womens showers =)
thufirrhawatAug 11, 2010
For the longest time I thought invisibility was the only way I would ever see a boob in real life. Then I discovered the power of liquor.
abk0110Aug 11, 2010
but an invisible camera wouldn't capture anything, since the light would just go straight through the film or the photo-receptors. You'd have to be a floating camera ripping girls' shirts off.
tiakAug 12, 2010
@damnshoes
Technically, being invisible also means being blind, so not well.
captntyinknotsAug 11, 2010
Available at your local Wal-Mart.
chrislisa10570Aug 11, 2010
Not unless they figure out a way to make it out of rayon
eurynom0sAug 11, 2010
I've got to imagine silk in Jumbo-XXXXXXXL would cost a small fortune.
randomgorillaAug 11, 2010
the world's fattest ghost!
protodonAug 11, 2010
Another invisibility cloak?
caramba421Aug 11, 2010
Yeah, well they lost the first one.
vlmusicalsoundAug 12, 2010
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nine56Aug 12, 2010
+1 internets for you sir.
7king7kingAug 11, 2010
Awesome!
captininsanityAug 11, 2010
Silk dipped in gold? Did they get this idea for an invisibility cloak from an old alchemist book? Witchery!
eshinnAug 11, 2010
Nah, the financial rulers of the world would feel much more comfortable if their golden parachutes were invisible.
tuneraiderAug 12, 2010
She turned me into a newt!
ramilehtiAug 12, 2010
I see that you got better.
wassamattaAug 11, 2010
Ezio Auditore de Firenze has already mastered disappearing into crowds.
cpmartinAug 11, 2010
Yeah you blend in when you have whore's fluttering around you.
ayeroxorAug 11, 2010
For some reason, "Whore's Fluttering" sounds like a spice. "Can I have 10 ounces of Whore's Fluttering please?"
SpeakOfTheDevilAug 11, 2010
Altaïr did it first.
abk0110Aug 11, 2010
but it was really dull when he did it.
nerdherderAug 11, 2010
This article.
My head.
clippclopAug 11, 2010
It only works out of our visible spectrum, so it's essentially useless until scientists figure out a way to make it work within visible spectrum.
eurynom0sAug 11, 2010
So basically it's stealth the way a stealth bomber is stealth?
jman5Aug 11, 2010
But potentially it could eventually work on visible wavelengths we see.
tiakAug 12, 2010
It's damn close though, T-rays have traditionally (before a modern half-assed redefinition) been considered to be part of the infrared spectrum, not too different in wavelength from visible light.
mxm111Aug 11, 2010
What scientists call "invisibility", is not the same what people think. Basically it is a material with refractive index less than 1. And even if you have such material it will not be invisible in normal sense if you wear it or something. It can be invisible in very specific cases only, like if it is a sphere, then you can hide something inside sphere and you will not be able to see what is hidden. However, the sphere itself will be still visible, because it refracts/reflects light. So, it is not Harry Potter's cloak.
bmorekarlAug 11, 2010
whispersilk
Closed AccountAug 11, 2010
I see I'm not the only MTG fan here. Buddy played this on my yesterday in fact. Stupid cloak...
rhumu17Aug 11, 2010
It's great on Uril the miststalker in an aura based edh deck XD
rumbeefAug 11, 2010
Whispersilk Cloak it give it shroud, so you can't target with your auras. *pushes glasses farther up nose
morrissey79Aug 12, 2010
Can't we just forget that Mirrodin ever happened? But nnoooo, we have to go back and revisit it...becuase all of 3 people would have preffered that over returning to Ravnica.
Now if you excuse me I have to go help my ten year old with his homework.
caramba421Aug 11, 2010
My ill-fitting pants and linux t-shirt already render me invisible to all women.
cpmartinAug 11, 2010
"Who hate's pants!?"
uberdugerAug 11, 2010
I lol'd. Then cried.
originalmadmattAug 11, 2010
What bout linux fan girls? Need I post the picture?
gregdogumAug 11, 2010
Dugg for render
wessideAug 11, 2010
lol TL:DR right at the top of the article, good for them!
iatethecrayonAug 11, 2010
ohhh silky smooth comfort and invisibility! Do want!
gr00verAug 11, 2010
Closed AccountAug 11, 2010
clever
ryan3842Aug 11, 2010
CLEVER GIRL
yukennaAug 11, 2010
...I know, right?
serif69Aug 11, 2010
y c ak s n e itz
chunkybeefstuAug 11, 2010
...So you just draped that puppy over your keyboard, eh?
moses141Aug 11, 2010
Frankly, I find your comment crude and morally reprehensible. To make such a broad statement and not back it up with facts or figures simply fans the flames of hatred and division the we all hope to overcome. As humans, we all should aspire to get beyond this sort of personal derisiveness.
Closed AccountAug 11, 2010
I found it shallow and pedantic
skillelAug 12, 2010
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nine56Aug 12, 2010
I see what you did there.
Closed AccountAug 12, 2010
nice
sgerwel1985Aug 11, 2010
Still waiting on the "flying car" we were "promised" back in 2003.
mizzrymAug 11, 2010
And jet pack.
sgerwel1985Aug 11, 2010
And hover-board, But i think that falls along the lines of flying car.
spuddlyAug 12, 2010
http://www.martinjetpack.com/
there you go
originalmadmattAug 11, 2010
And escalator sidewalks
apokalypsenowAug 11, 2010
2003? My mother is over 50 and complains that she doesn't have the flying car she was promised when *she* was a little girl! January 1, every year, like clockwork.
somnambulatorAug 11, 2010
That's one cool mum!
guacamolesanAug 11, 2010
HOVERBOARD? WHERE IS IT.
kaisa226Aug 11, 2010
Guess you have never heard of a plane. Been around for about 100 years now...
skillelAug 12, 2010
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sgerwel1985Aug 12, 2010
Great find man, that is incredible. I know they have been "invented" and they are "impractical," but then again so are invisible cloaks.
Also supplemental to your link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElS9BKSsezw
asus3000Aug 12, 2010
NEVER going to happen.. Moller just created a venture capital investor's black hole.
adamerica2007Aug 12, 2010
I've seen at least four news reports on that guy and his "flying car" (which, by the way, he apparently refuses to fly without being tethered to a pole for safety reasons). Each of those reports have been spread out over the past five years. Every time I get excited. But I think the guy is full of sh*t.
zeibenAug 11, 2010
Doesn't sound like a cloak so much as a drug/ridiculously invasive surgery...
clippclopAug 11, 2010
An invisibility cloak that will cloak you from aliens that have only see higher wavelengths!
bobbydeluxeAug 11, 2010
Nothin to see here people..
Closed AccountAug 11, 2010
I see what you did there.
sherwin7Aug 11, 2010
I can't see what you did there.
h3llr41s3rAug 11, 2010
Move along.
thegreatsamAug 11, 2010
Ok, at a smaller size (front page size), the thumbnail pic looks slightly like a boob.
drunktomatoAug 11, 2010
Really...? Please be honest now, how many boobs have you actually seen?
jsmuli2Aug 11, 2010
Voldemort won't know what hit him!
jayskullsAug 11, 2010
There are pics in the article.. they're just invisible.
generalobviousAug 11, 2010
"Within the next few years people could wear silk to become invisible in a a crowd."
LOL.
You kiddin me? Half this s**t is the scientific equivalent of vaporware. In fact, any amazing article on science or medicine you've read in the past few years has fallen under this.
You think, "Oh sweet! That would be awesome," then realize it never ever materializes.
jgzmanAug 11, 2010
So, you're looking for an invisibility cloak you can see?
As well, it has to have available resources and be economically viable before it will be released to the public.
Ex: If this s**t required H3 to produce, then it wouldn't get much further than the lab. We simply don't have much of it.
Alternately, if each square meter of material cost a few billion to produce, it wouldn't even make it to the military. Even for invisible troops, the US can't pay $15B a go. (at least, I don't think so)
In conclusion, just because technology never makes it to radio shack doesn't mean it never was.
generalobviousAug 11, 2010
I'm speaking strictly from the comment about how people will somehow suddenly use this within a few years to be invisible in a crowd.
Not to mention the calamity our govt would make, "We can't see terrorists. This should never be released to the public."
Same with flying cars, or really anything awesome that we could potentially used. Nixed.
Closed AccountAug 11, 2010
Serves you right for getting your hopes up.
bobroberts1953Aug 12, 2010
They would give that contract to the right people.
arcookeAug 12, 2010
It's not the scientific community, it's the media trying to boost their reader/viewership. The scientists are doing their research and publishing their findings as always, the media is the one twisting it out of proportion... trying to hype you up on futuristic products. You either need to redirect your frustration or STFU.
If the writer would have stuck with resonating T-waves, instead of trying to sensationalize very early findings to gain clicks, it would have been a much more honest article.
Nothing the scientists were quoted saying had anything to do with "invisibility cloaks":
- "This is an unusual angle for a metamaterial because of silk's ability to interface with the human body,"
- "On the sensing side it gives you a platform that is very adaptable."
- The new silk research is "interesting,"
- "There is a lot of interest in using flexible substrates for metamaterials, and silk is a good candidate for that."
flyblackboxAug 11, 2010
"..but the Boston-area scientists who developed the technology think that silk could work as an invisibility cloak at much smaller wavelengths, even in the visible range. "
So, did they invent a silk cloak, or do they think they did?Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
canadia86Aug 11, 2010
Too bad it will only work while sitting on a bench after being chased by guards.
seokingAug 11, 2010
Someone in need of the cloak: http://www.workrevenge.com/dance-at-work/
maxxellAug 11, 2010
This deserves a digg all its own rather than being attached to some article about vaporware.
seokingAug 11, 2010
Like it would get truely digged.
blackopAug 11, 2010
Stop spamming your sites.
rolotomasieAug 11, 2010
'It's conceivable that nearly anything could happen several years from now.'
WOW!
ghostalkerAug 12, 2010
That is the smartest thing I have ever heard anybody say, ever.
whodoneitAug 11, 2010
Pffft. I've had one for many years, too bad nobody believes me when I show it to them hanging in my closet. Just because they cannot see it they don't believe me.
Then they are all like, but how come you won't wear it right now and disappear for me. I say listen. Remember that dinner that you wanted me to come over to and I said I would, but never showed up??
jgzmanAug 11, 2010
No, that's an invisible cloak, not a cloak of invisibility. I had that problem with a ring once.
uberdugerAug 11, 2010
/Mindf**k
rudegarAug 11, 2010
is this the emperor's new clothes?
diggerlaterAug 11, 2010
Call me when they reach *optical* wavelengths. Invisible is generally thought to me "invisible to humans".
flarn2006Aug 11, 2010
rtfa
diggerlaterAug 11, 2010
I did, so stfu and gtfo.
hardwalkerAug 11, 2010
so disappointed when i saw it was from teh onion :(
tedcAug 11, 2010
FTA: "Scientists call them split ring resonators, or SSRs. Usually scrawled into metals, SSR can give ordinary materials extraordinary abilities…"
S(plit) R(ing) R(esonator). S.S.R. Hmm…
haikufuAug 11, 2010
I have an invisibility cloak, but I put it down somewhere and can't find it.
misteratozAug 11, 2010
Pics or it didn't happen.
sageisgayAug 11, 2010
Yeah, if they ever came up with an invisibility cloak we would definitely know about it.
dolverAug 11, 2010
I fell in love with the idea of the flying car when I was a little guy back in the late 1980s. I have been disappointed for over 20 years now!
tunitg6Aug 11, 2010
Like!
dudelikeschickAug 11, 2010
i love silk
thepsilocybeAug 11, 2010
Those scientists must be HOPAs...
crharrisonAug 11, 2010
FTA: "The new metamaterial, as invisibility cloaks and their kin are technically called, only works on relatively long terahertz waves"
So the only thing this is good for at the moment, may be at getting things past the terahertz body scanners that they've installed in airports, I'm sure the TSA is pleased.
Though I suppose there is a market for silk underwear that will protect your privacy when going through airport scanners.
flarn2006Aug 11, 2010
inb4 this is made illegal except for government/military/possibly medical use.
Closed AccountAug 11, 2010
Invisible worm s**t?
siskorabanAug 11, 2010
I see what you did there.
anomaly100Aug 11, 2010
I want one! Especially lately.
Closed AccountAug 11, 2010
I think you'll be okay, recently the tea-leaves spelled out 'E=mc2', so GPS devices have to go as they essentially 'channel satan'.
doublebaconsodaAug 11, 2010
So either the government is going to use this stuff to spy on us or criminals are going to use this stuff to rob or rape someone. Good idea dips**ts.
johnomazzAug 11, 2010
You want an invisibility cloak, have a gorgeous sexy woman with you at all times. You'll never be noticed. Men will be staring at her drooling, women will be staring her with scorn and envy in their eyes.
deathcaptAug 11, 2010
Sensationalist Title.
Sorry, but there's no way any sort of material will create a harry potter style invisibility cloak, these are all being designed as tools for X-ray scanning/ medicine. They're just a tool to combine with scanning methods to help improve results. There will never be a broad spectrum meta material.
taintbrushAug 11, 2010
The article is a stretch. Anything is invisible at a long enough wavelength.