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Title: Plan For Cloaking Device Unveiled
Post by: Darren Dirt on May 25, 2006, 07:49:31 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5016068.stm

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"What you're trying to do is guide light around an object, but the art is to bend it such that it leaves the object in precisely the same way that it initially hits it. You have the illusion that there is nothing there," he told the BBC's Science in Action programme.

The work could have uses in military stealth technology - but engineers have not yet created the materials that could be used to cloak an aircraft or a tank, John Pendry explains. Professor Pendry's research has been supported by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa).

Several other scientific teams have proposed ideas for cloaking devices. One theoretical paper proposed using a material known as a superlens to cancel out light being scattered from an object.

As the "first post" on /. sez...

I, for one, welcome our new invisible overlords. (http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/25/233252)

One poster was reminded of the mini-light-coat thingie ("Optical Camouflage")... http://projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/oc.html

Title: Re: Plan For Cloaking Device Unveiled
Post by: Mr. Analog on May 25, 2006, 09:30:18 PM

Pfft, everyone knows that invisiblility can be defeated by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny Glover aaaand possibly Gary Busey.

Title: Re: Plan For Cloaking Device Unveiled
Post by: Darren Dirt on May 26, 2006, 08:50:22 AM

U forgot Mr. Norris.

Title: Re: Plan For Cloaking Device Unveiled
Post by: Mr. Analog on May 26, 2006, 08:52:28 AM

Quote from: Darren Dirt on May 26, 2006, 08:50:22 AM
U forgot Mr. Norris.

Well, hell yeah. He can smell your fear before you are born.

Title: Re: Plan For Cloaking Device Unveiled
Post by: Darren Dirt on May 26, 2006, 12:45:18 PM

and his tears cure cancer, but since he never cries... ever... etc. (http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/) , etc. (http://www.google.com/search?q=Chuck%20Norris%20facts) ...

Title: Re: Plan For Cloaking Device Unveiled
Post by: Darren Dirt on June 29, 2006, 10:59:19 AM

Wikipedia entries on the subject -- a lot of really fascinating "external links" for some of these (especially considering the recent advances in mini-LEDs, mini-cams, and "flexible e-paper" etc.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_camouflage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Bird_of_Prey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird-of-prey_%28Star_Trek%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking_device

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_technology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_camouflage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_light-emitting_diode

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Else%27s_Problem_field

Title: Re: Plan For Cloaking Device Unveiled
Post by: Darren Dirt on August 30, 2006, 01:01:19 AM

top secret invisibility cloaking technology (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWQ8ovPhigg) -- apparently using nano technology

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ3y4-36J_k&NR

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