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Invisibility 'Carpet' Expected Soon

preview.stuff.co.nz — "An invisibility cloak has long been the the stuff of fantasy, but fiction is about to become reality."

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  • LucasHenderson, on 04/05/2009, -1/+42I'll believe it when I don't see it.
  • joelsmif, on 04/05/2009, -2/+32invisible panties, visible carpet?
  • sirjohnmichalot, on 04/06/2009, -0/+22
  • HAL90000, on 04/06/2009, -1/+21You clever bastard you.
  • theGOG, on 04/06/2009, -1/+17You can hide things under it and they won't be seen? You mean like a carpet?
  • CarStan, on 04/06/2009, -0/+13he's a witch!
  • gumballer, on 04/06/2009, -0/+10burn him!
  • theGOG, on 04/06/2009, -1/+10Better yet: Schrödinger's Invisibility Box
    The cat inside it is both visible and invisible.
  • cloudberries, on 04/06/2009, -0/+820 years in the making.

    Coming soon: The Invisibility Box
  • isheee, on 04/06/2009, -0/+8No, the first dude's more right.
  • Fr0stbyte124, on 04/06/2009, -0/+7Why does every article about invisibility research reference Harry freaking Potter, as though Rawlings has a patent on the concept? Invisibility is science fiction's gig, first and foremost.
  • Velnich, on 04/06/2009, -0/+6I'm glad they found something down to earth like "harry potter" to help explain the concept to me. I would have been lost otherwise.
  • WibWobble, on 04/06/2009, -0/+5I can't click the vote up button? (Seriously! [just noticed, that word looks spelled strange]).
  • inactive, on 04/06/2009, -0/+5Ghost in the Shell anyone?
  • yaosio, on 04/06/2009, -0/+5Whomever wrote this horrible article needs to be fired, it reads like a cat rolled across a keyboard until the computer decided that words were formed.
  • CarStan, on 04/06/2009, -0/+4and i just read the 'Geniuses who saw their invntions go terribly wrong' article...
  • wjlaw100, on 04/06/2009, -0/+4The only was this will really work is if they come out with invisibility drapes. Its always better when the carpet matches the drapes.
  • redcodenl, on 04/06/2009, -0/+4Then, in the locker room, he can hide his tiny object...
  • achew22, on 04/06/2009, -3/+6Pics or it didn't happen............ wait a second....
  • Mootabolife, on 04/06/2009, -0/+3Don't listen to isheee.. the first time we see this it won't be perfect.
  • usernr1337, on 04/06/2009, -0/+3if you can bend electromagnetic waves around it you can build a fridge that doesnt need power :D (heat won't get throught it).
    by the way in this case 'invisible cloak' is the invisible carpet - it will bent light around it like there is nothing there, but if that 'cloak' touches ground the light can't bounce off ground, because its covered by something that light can't touch, so the covered place on the ground will look like TOTALY black spot (carpet). at least it's like i understand it
  • isheee, on 04/06/2009, -0/+3Let the guy have his fantasy.
  • morepowerr, on 04/06/2009, -0/+3"The uses... Oh the uses... We will all be 40-50 years old before this ever becomes a commercial market item. By that time our kids would be using it to do stupid *****."

    First off if the public is seeing it the government has had it for at lest 20 years. 2nd you wont to make something invisible just put it in a room with no light.

    Thing are only visible because of light.
  • nonpareil, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2Ah, I see it's time for our bimonthly invisibility article on Digg. Seriously, the invisibility cloak has replaced the flying car in terms of being 'tech just around the corner.'
  • MizuhoChan, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2But the drapes are always visible anyway. It's the carpet we want.
  • inactive, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2Therm-optic camouflage is to be used only by the section 4 rangers, section 6 and of course section 9.
  • ultrafez, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2Click in the very upper left corner of the thumbs up button, that worked for me =)
  • 4rp4n3t, on 04/06/2009, -3/+4Giggity giggity.
  • LargeStack, on 04/07/2009, -0/+1Goo
  • thisisparta, on 04/06/2009, -0/+1I smell bs.
  • earthceltic, on 04/06/2009, -0/+1FTA: "The first man-made cloak will be more like an invisibility "carpet", he said. Tuck a tiny object underneath it, and it will seemingly disappear because the bump the object makes will be hidden from view with an artificial mirage."
    I'm not sure how this applies to your statement.
  • stuffradio, on 04/06/2009, -0/+1Just hope nobody puts the remote underneath it!
  • TheOther1, on 04/06/2009, -0/+1Romulan cloaking device?
  • Rudegar, on 04/06/2009, -0/+1'invisibility cloak' and invisible Carpet are too very different things so the technology would be soo different it would never work! :P
  • xyllar, on 04/06/2009, -0/+1Harry Potter? No thanks, I think I'll wait until the cloaking device from Star Trek is available.
  • LANjackal, on 04/06/2009, -0/+1*yawn* talk to us when you've written a paper or something serious about this, Dr. Pendry.
  • AgentAnderson, on 04/06/2009, -0/+1minus 9000 points from Gryffindor
  • Mootabolife, on 04/06/2009, -0/+1i urpw thes coemet in mi ivaobity peyboadr
  • 4rp4n3t, on 04/06/2009, -0/+1Also FTA:
    "I am optimistic work in progress will produce an optical cloak in the next six months," Professor Pendry said.
  • MizuhoChan, on 04/06/2009, -0/+1So we need anti-grav by the time it's an actual cloak.
  • ultrafez, on 04/06/2009, -0/+1Yes, but more people have read Harry Potter than are into science fiction (I would imagine). Also the people who haven't read Harry Potter have probably heard about it, so if you relate it to Harry Potter then you are more likely to get your audience to understand you than if you had referenced sci-fi instead.
  • LucasVB, on 04/06/2009, -0/+1Another week, another sensationalist metamaterial article referencing Harry Potter.
  • m4lomb, on 04/06/2009, -0/+1just what we need.... our goddamn government to get its hands on an invisibility cloak.
  • 2Wrongs, on 04/06/2009, -0/+1Funny, my wife and I were talking about the bi-monthly Harry Potter invisibility cloak phenomenon this morning. She pointed out that there's also a breathless "Solar Panels Efficiency Increased by 35%" about every month. We should be to at least 840% efficiency by now.
  • FXNGLAS, on 04/06/2009, -0/+1I didn't even see it coming.
  • nzputergirl, on 04/07/2009, -0/+0Hi there,

    This link doesn't work - go here - http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/2315859/Invisibi ...
  • verynegative, on 04/06/2009, -2/+2













  • Pecka00, on 04/06/2009, -0/+0Athena making Odysseus invisible?
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