A Real Cloaking Device
source: http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-01/real-cloaking-device
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First designed in 2006, the new version of the device is a more sophisticated and complicated design that can cloak a wider variety of waves. To create the new device, the researchers developed a new set of mathematical algorithms which, in turn, are used to engineer artificially structured "metamaterials" that have properties not found in natural materials. The metamaterials are what form the cloaking structures, which bend electromagnetic waves, like light, around an object, so it appears the object is no longer there.
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jimmypockets
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interesting
- 3 years ago
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jimmypockets
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TabulaRasa
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What I'd truly love to see if contacts that allow you to see in infrared.... a dream come true.... just wish I had the money/talent to do it.
I think infrared would be the only way to see "cloaked" objects.
- 3 years ago
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TabulaRasa
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TReaper405
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TabulaRasa:
infrared is just another type of electromagnetic wave and could also be cloaked using this tech.
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TReaper405
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TabulaRasa
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TabulaRasa:
None the less, I still want it.
- 3 years ago
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TabulaRasa
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TReaper405
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TabulaRasa:
Agreed
- 3 years ago
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TReaper405
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tommytripper
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just wait till the cops or army get their hands on this... random tasering of people... mass raids of peoples home by people who do not appear to be there... this is a peeping toms dream come true... all their sick pleasures and no one to see them...
this is a bad idea... humans are not ready for this...
- 3 years ago
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tommytripper
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TabulaRasa
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tommytripper:
If that's true, then humans will NEVER be ready for ANY technology because there will always be someone to exploit something of some kind.
- 3 years ago
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TabulaRasa
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24French
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Is it really fair to give cultural credit to Harry Potter when the TV Batman had an invisibility cloak? not to mention the other superhero cloak firsts. No, it is not fair.
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24French
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TabulaRasa
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24French:
No but a lot more people can relate with that scene in Harry Potter where he uses the cloak, therefore it is used for reference.
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TabulaRasa
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remanns
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hmmmmmmmm-
object flickers in and out and disappears over an American troop training area,.....hmmmmm - 3 years ago
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remanns
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Hunnter
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The only problem with this cloak and similar ones is that the things inside are blinded from the outside world.
But, there was a patent i saw on Arxiv that mentioned how to get around that problem and not only cloak inside objects, but objects *outside* the cloak and allow the outside objects to see things.
Wish i could find it again, but i have lost the thing twice... seriously lol - 3 years ago
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Hunnter
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arcticspirit
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OMG came from Duke University, not Tokyo! We should be so proud!!!
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arcticspirit
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Stradius
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We're finally starting to REALLY figure out the universe around us. Now if we can just master our species' ability to put technology to use for better purposes.
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Stradius
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TheColorYellow
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So perception of reality can in fact be virtual reality?
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TheColorYellow
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telcod
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"First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is" Donovan
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telcod
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wolfluck31
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Scifi turned reality....the futures so bright i'm wearing shades.
- 3 years ago
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wolfluck31
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adrian86
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wolfluck31:
lol Im gonna have to use that one.
- 3 years ago
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adrian86
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Dmitri_Molotov
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Truly old news.
- 3 years ago
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Dmitri_Molotov
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TReaper405
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Dmitri_Molotov:
This is an update. I know this idea has been around for a while but this is a new advance.
- 3 years ago
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TReaper405
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Gargaryun
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If You want invisible pants, Use Saran-Wrap to Show Your Stuff!!!
- 3 years ago
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Gargaryun
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daveguy
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next up: invisible pants! I can't wait...
- 3 years ago
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daveguy
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unimatrix0
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daveguy:
Invisible pants! I'll take two please.
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unimatrix0
