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- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+86I can't wait to get one of these! I'll wear it in my flying car! And my water car! While playing Duke Nukem Forever on my Phantom console!
The future's gonna be great!!! - theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Yeah, but your Tachyon Emissions can still give your position away!
- warrenfalk, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20old news... I already have one of these sitting next to my cold fusion device. It's how I hide my perpetual motion machine from the government.
- aliengoods, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Sounds like vaporwear to me.
- Smoov, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13@GoatCheez
"I feel that doing so would just be useless, as I still wouldn't have the time to go into enough detail for everyone to comprehend"
Get your head out of your ass, Einstein. - DigiDave, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12A good digg. This looks like a better story of it: http://www.nbc10.com/news/9273555/detail.html
By better I mean more sensational. - schlongmeister, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10My Elvish Cloak of Invisibility will hide me from your 3 Vorpal Sword...
- subscribtion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Meh... 5 years. I'll wait for the story "There could possibly be someone in an invisibility cloak behind you right now."
- simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Uhm, researchers in japan have been doing this for years. I've seen prototypes of this technology working over two years ago! Don't mod me down if you don't believe me, ask me for proof and I'll find it.
- simtel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Yeah, but it disappeared.
- Buelldozer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7At some point the batteries go dead and it will become visible again, either that or wait until after you go to bed. When you get up in the middle of the night to go the bathroom you'll trip over the thing and break your neck. :-D
- thedonquixote, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9How do you find it if you put it down? I mean its invisible right? 8D
- fornulf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This is really gonna raise the bar for practical jokes.
- shaun944, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10because Harry Potter was the first time anyone conceived of an invisible cloak.
and things being conceived from books aren't bad. See Jules Verne, Da Vinci, Arthur C. Clarke - Sukino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Bush cannot be re-elected anymore ..
- SmoothHeavy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Neat concept, would be interesting to see where this is at in 8 + years.
- capn_caveman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Here's a link to the source as well: http://dukenews.duke.edu/2006/05/cloaking.html
- humblepatience, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6digg has a love affair with invisiblility cloaks
- bhiv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I never saw that coming.
- evilTak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7There had better not be Klingons anywhere *near* my anus...
- Stevethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"Sci-fi becoming reality"
When wasn't this the case? - xAXISx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I don't think you understand the concept whatsoever. There is so input or output. If there were input and output, then it would only work from one angle. The concept here is that they are routing light around it, making it seem invisible. Mind explaining in further detail?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+45 years according to a professor ~ translated to 25 years till final product releases!
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4i think this is incredible. everyone else may continue with their bashing now..
btw: "To be realistic, it's going to be fairly thick. Cloak is a misnomer. 'Shield' might be more appropriate," he said. - ZenKai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Uh dude? They're bending light around the target. AROUND. It's not capturing the background and rendering it forward. Think about it: an object is only visible due to the light REFLECTING from it. If there's no reflection, no visual image.
I'm more interested in what types of radiation they're going to filter out. Can't you see it? Update: Having successfully managed to redirect radiation around a target, the scientist developing the cloak began the first beta test. After spending about 15 minutes trying to find him, one of the staff stumbled into him, dislodging the cloak. A horrified silence descended upon the discovery of the scientist's frozen, lifeless body. - colonels1020, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Oh, have you seen my cloak? I can't seem to find it because it's ***** invisible!!
- probune, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Revolutional?
I do agree, however, that it shouldn't be equated to the invisibility cloak in Harry Potter. Gives people the wrong idea. - AllnightChemist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3From The BBC Article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5016068.stm
"Two separate teams, including Professor Pendry's, have outlined ways to cloak objects in the journal Science."
Is it possible that this phenomenon only applies to objects that are in the journal Science?
[.....Grammar Joke....sorry] - hustler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I agree.
I don't think you've understood the concept whatsoever.
Try reading this article on it. It has a nice graphic for the slow brained.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5016068.stm - fauxXenophanes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, you just put on a white sheet and video from in front of you is projected on the back.
You instantly become "invisible". - Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3hollywood would love it it would be a lot less then making invisiblobs like ms fantastic
- Sukino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"assuming there is sufficient research into the technology."
Doesn't that apply to pretty much anything? - p9s50W5k4GUD2c6, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6"Yes, you could actually make SOMEONE invisible as long as someone wears a cloak made of this material..."
Someone... or someTHING.
The Romulans would call this a new definition of 'stealth'. - seraph741, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'd like to see the proof if you can find it. I love how people on this site think they are smarter than professors who do this ***** for a living. The image of some lonely teenager sitting on his computer trying to falsify things that he doesn't understand is just hilarious. I think people on this site falsify things just for the sake of falsifying them, but they really have no clue what they are talking about. lol
btw, i meant to reply to simpeid, don't know what happened. - schleufer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I wouldn't exactly call that japanese version an "invisibility cloak".
I think this article is entirely too sensational. There is no way in hell an Invisibility cloak with the magnitude of "Harry Potter" is going to be developed in 5 years.
It is one thing to have a person walking right next to you, completely invisible and undetectable when you are staring STRAIGHT AT THEM. It is something else entirely to have an object blend into the background, similar to camoflage. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3why can't they go with something simple first? I haven't seen ANYTHING invisible yet let alone cloth thin material. Some obvious candidates:
jewelry boxes
safes (wall mounted)
cell phones (funny, but true, esp for earpieces) - Wyzard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"All light or other electromagnetic waves are swept around the area, guided by the metamaterial to emerge on the other side as if they had passed through an empty volume of space."
But the light rays will still be traveling a longer path than they would if they'd gone straight through, and therefore will take longer to traverse the space of the invisible object. It'll be detectable by generating light pulses and timing the reflections, or by examining the phase of reflected laser beams. Or, if the scenery behind the cloaked object is moving, by looking for a slight "lag" in the movement seen through the cloak. - Hubris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Sigh....if they actually make such a cloak....what (other than military and espionage) will be the primary use? Perverts hiding in women's change rooms. Maybe to hide cameras in the change rooms.
Remember - porn drives the technology industry. - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4yeah haha, that was the stupidest ***** ever..
this sounds awesome though - drdidg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Everyone forget that this thought came out back it the 80's with Predator and bending of light? Sci-fi becoming reality.
- tavisjohn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2 A great gag gift would be to give a friend a condom made out of that stuff. They put it on, and a new game is bourn... "Where's Willie?"
The Stealth Bra.....
"Brought to you by Light Speed Breifs, Underware soo stylish that no one can see it!"
Look, the Emperor's new clothes! - Sarev0k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Excellent! So how long until scientists create gravity defying brooms that we can all play Quidditch with?
- edgecurve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I bet they lose it immediately after building it.
- Nicholutso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It would in fact depend on the speed of response the cloak had. If you can make something standing still invisible, why not something moving? I think it would largely depend upon the complexity of the processing involved in the redirection of light from the input to the output. It sounds like you're thinking of this as a digital signal processor. I imagine it would largely be an analog process since the inputs and outputs are the surface of the material. If you were to quantify areas on the surface of the material as "inputs" and "outputs" for digital signal processing, it would result in the types of digital artifacts you're talking about. I think it would make sense for the material to function in an analog fashion which would likely result in different types of distortion, but an overall simpler design based on signal correction as light strikes and "flows" around the material.
- ronmexico, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'll expect it right after cold fussion, which should be any day now.
- sanman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There are some way better articles up now:
http://www.techreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16930&ch=infotech
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060522/full/060522-18.html
They get more into the technical aspects. - avPaul, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Very cool. I can't wait to not see it.
- mroffroad, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i plan on using it in the girls locker room!
- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Wait a minute. The cloaking device should not be developed before engines that run on crystals?! WTF?!
- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Or even 6 + years. *sigh*
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