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YoshiAngemon
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| Quote: | WASHINGTON – Scientists say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people and objects invisible. Researchers have demonstrated for the first time they were able to cloak three-dimensional objects using artificially engineered materials that redirect light around the objects.
Previously, they only have been able to cloak very thin two-dimensional objects.
The findings, by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, led by Xiang Zhang, are to be released later this week in the journals Nature and Science.
The new work moves scientists a step closer to hiding people and objects from visible light, which could have broad applications, including military ones.
People can see objects because they scatter the light that strikes them, reflecting some of it back to the eye. Cloaking uses materials, known as metamaterials, to deflect radar, light or other waves around an object, like water flowing around a smooth rock in a stream.
Metamaterials are mixtures of metal and circuit board materials such as ceramic, Teflon or fiber composite. They are designed to bend visible light in a way that ordinary materials don’t. Scientists are trying to use them to bend light around objects so they don’t create reflections or shadows.
It differs from stealth technology, which does not make an aircraft invisible but reduces the cross-section available to radar, making it hard to track.
The research was funded in part by the U.S. Army Research Office and the National Science Foundation’s Nano-Scale Science and Engineering Center. |
Do you realize what this could mean? It might mean that some wealthy cosplayers could use that technology to make Stealth Camoflauge to be Solid Snake, or make a mysterious appearance like Francis! |
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Soviet-Mudkipz Leader
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:49 am
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You forgot harry potter. But anyways  Now If I had one of those I could sneak out of class. |
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Crappiest Animator ever.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:21 am
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If this thing comes to exisitence, someone will try to use one to their advantage, and do things such as *crag*, stealing, killing others they dislike, blackmail, and a heck of alot of other ones. Is it really worth it? |
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Bartz Klauser
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:27 am
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The biggest catch from such technology, is that the user can still be detected with the use of the electromagnetic spectrum. As such, a probably countermeasure would be an implant that allows it's user to see infrared waves or something like that. |
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The Axolotl Sympathist
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:30 am
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I want this to be released for home use.  |
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Fat Tuper
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:32 am
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| Chaos-Stev-0 wrote: | | If this thing comes to exisitence, someone will try to use one to their advantage, and do things such as *crag*, stealing, killing others they dislike, blackmail, and a heck of alot of other ones. Is it really worth it? |
Yeah, this is what I was going to say. I think this is something better left unresearched. |
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Bartz Klauser
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:33 am
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It'll probably only be available for home use in fifteen to twenty years. |
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Fat Tuper
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:37 am
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| Pyroclasm wrote: | | It'll probably only be available for home use in fifteen to twenty years. |
1. it doesn't matter, because people will still do that
2. Even if not for home use, some people know other people... |
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Soviet-Mudkipz Leader
Super Amigo
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:58 am
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That cloak will bring destruction to humanity |
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The Double Duece!
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 12:36 pm
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| Geno wrote: | | I want this to be released for home use. |
Yup. It would be awesome, I WANT TO SNEAK STUFF FROM MY SISTER, GOSH DARNIT. |
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Para
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:27 pm
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I'm pretty sure this will only be military-issued.
I just don't see this being released for consumer purchase for a long time. |
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Negi-chama
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:27 pm
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I know how to make an invisibilty cloak.
1, get a cloak.
2, put it over you so people can only see the cloak.
Now, you're invisible. Because invisible means you're unable to be seen, and well, when people look at you, they can see the cloak, not you, rendering you invisible. :D |
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Bartz Klauser
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:51 pm
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| Geno wrote: | | I want this to be released for home use. |
This'll make Paintball so much more fun. |
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Soviet-Mudkipz Leader
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 5:02 pm
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| Tsuki wrote: | I know how to make an invisibilty cloak.
1, get a cloak.
2, put it over you so people can only see the cloak.
Now, you're invisible. Because invisible means you're unable to be seen, and well, when people look at you, they can see the cloak, not you, rendering you invisible.  |
*Shoots Fireice with a rocket launcher* |
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jacking off
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 5:06 pm
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This will be abused.
People here will use it to peek at girls changing. bad idea. -100% supported. Do they not realize this is the pervert's number one dream tool? |
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