Plan For Cloaking Device Unveiled

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May 25, 2006, 07:49:31 PM Last Edit: May 25, 2006, 08:01:53 PM by Darren Dirt
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.


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



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May 25, 2006, 09:30:18 PM
Pfft, everyone knows that invisiblility can be defeated by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny Glover aaaand possibly Gary Busey.
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Darren Dirt

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May 26, 2006, 08:50:22 AM
U forgot Mr. Norris.
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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.
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May 26, 2006, 12:45:18 PM Last Edit: May 26, 2006, 12:47:09 PM by Darren Dirt
and his tears cure cancer, but since he never cries... ever... etc. , etc. ...

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June 29, 2006, 10:59:19 AM
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August 30, 2006, 01:01:19 AM
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