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Invisibility Tech Demo Tomorrow In NYC
Velcroman1 writes "Invisibility cloaks and deflector shields, once a staple of popular science-fiction, are now the real deal, researchers say. But here on Earth, top researchers have been battling too, not over the fate of the empire but over whose tech will someday shield U.S. ships. Fractal Antenna Systems came out swinging Wednesday over a 'perfected' invisibility cloak by researchers at Duke and Imperial College. Company CEO and inventor Nathan Cohen issued a scathingly critical press release throwing very visible zingers — and claiming he invented it first. '[Their tech] makes you more, not less, visible,' Cohen said. The company says a patent-pending deflector shield built off a variant of the technology can divert electromagnetic radiation around an object — and they plan to show it off Friday in New York City, at the Radio Club of America."
If it works you won't see it.
Now we can finally catch up with Romulan technology.
I went to their last demo, and I didn't see anything!
Here is a picture of the device in action:
As you can see it is remarkably improved over previous versions.
Or don't.
Pics or it didn't happen.
This demo is supposed to happen in Philadelphia.
I can weave one into my superhero cloak.
I'll believe it when I don't see it.
Move along, move along, nothing to see here.
Seeing is NOT believing.
Pay No Attention to The Man behind The Invisibility Cloak.
Visit CryptoGnome in his home.
It's hardly a cloak if you're using a ninja as your subject.
There are a couple of videos on the Fractal Antennas website Fractal Antenna: Whats New. Looks like they have something for microwaves. But when they start talking about how this could be scaled up from microwaves to visible light I start to get a bit skeptical.
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I'll be in New York that day, but I'm not going to see this.
n/t
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Wonder Woman has had her invisible jet for 50 years... the only shame is that her outfit wasn't also invisible.
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I just can't see that.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
That's not so impressive. I'm invisible too. I know this because people always ignore me.
FTFS:They plan to show it off
LIke an auction of priceless artifacts.
Set your phasers on "funky"!
and sure enough, they /were/ under the couch all the time.
When you can bend light in vacant 3 dimensional space with EM fields so as to conceal large moving objects you can bet your ass that we'll
never hear a thing about it
I killed da wabbit -Elmer Fudd
Isn't it simpler to just generate an SEP field instead?
It's already been done with great fanfare
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Changing the resonance frequency of the scanners (radar) will detect it.
quote:
“If you move half a degree in angle, it stops working.
If you move half a percent in bandwidth, it stops working.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/11/14/deflector-shield-and-invisibility-cloak-wars/
It would be a good idea to avoid using the bathrooms....for obvious reasons.
Never play chicken with a passive aggressive.
I am very skeptical to any such announcements. I would like it better if every one would keep the exited reporting for after the demo. Especially /., which considers itself to be well educated on scientific and technological matters.
As a physicist (PhD) working on radio science in relation to astrophysics I have seen a lot of people proposing a lot of awesome inventions, that never worked...
I went through the website, and it is not really for the lay-person of the Internet.
From what I read and watched, we have not gotten to the point where we can make a human being "invisible" to the point where the visible light spectrum is affected.
However, with regards to electromagnetic spectrum, such as radar, microwave and other methods of scanning, searching or detection? Wow. The shielded objects simply are not there. Not a "hole in the air" sort of not there, I'm talking "does not exist in that portion of space/time" kind of there.
This will move the whole radar detection game into obsolescence, and we'll be back to using human observers, or using different spectrum devices to detect the air turbulence from the cloaked object's passing.
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It's not "perfect". It has the nifty property that it doesn't reflect anything. But it only works from one angle, and for one frequency (and a microwave frequency at that). It's not even "perfect" at eliminating reflection, just much better than previous ones.
It's a clever but minor advance blown entirely out of proportion because some jackass attached the word "perfect" to it. Everybody who repeated it needs to have their science writing license revoked.
They already did this demo in Atlanta. It was absolutely amazing, you couldn't see a thing - not the machine, or the scientists, or the wires, or anything! It's like they weren't even there!
Would be hilarious if they pull this off by blinding everyone in the room
If they create an EMR shield to make something invisible then I forsee the following issues:
- how does said thing communicate with something outside that zone or is it "invisibility" and a cone of silence?
- if they scatter all EMR then you can scan for the "hole" by having a sender and receiver on either side of it as a shadow would effectively be created
Scattering EMR is not the same as invisibility - that requires the thing to become transparent.
I've been holding an invisibility demo in the downtown area of a major city for over a week straight now, and nobody's noticed yet. It's going great!
every anti stealth detector ship should have an aviary full of seaguls and release them for detection. :) :)
just follow the seagulls and you will find the stealth ship. if you build it with chips they will come
Nathan Cohen and Fractal Antenna Systems have been on a crusade to corrupt Wikipedia. They have been paying multiple editors who have been systematically making advertising edits to multiple Wikipedia articles, all coming from IPs that map to the vicinity of Fractal Antenna Systems' headquarters in MA. They remove any reference to competitors (eg. Fractus) and any references that disagree that fractal antennas are the be-all end-all. The bulk of the corruption is on the fractal antenna article, but Nathan Cohen's name has been tossed in to several other pages... Notable people from XYZ, notable graduates from university XYZ, etc,
See the talk page on Fractal Antennas for all the details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fractal_antenna#Obvious_bias_in_article
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someone really posted a link from Fox news?
Instead of all they physics, can't you just plant a set of TV's on the side of whatever you are trying to hide, with cameras embedded in them. Cameras from one side of whatever display on the tv's on the other side (and vice versa). (Repeat for top/bottom and front/rear). Its not exactly perfect, but you get closely matching colors and motion, and 'seeing it' is a bitch.
With a working invisibility cloak I can see the whole nature of warfare changing dramatically.
All you need is a small force of "ninjas" using this technology who will assasinate (and keep assasinating) the other sides leaders. All they'd need to do is something like getting into the targets food preparation area to administer a bit of Polonium 210. Job done.
Of course you'd still need an army just in case the other side want to reenact the Somme etc. but on the whole this should make it a lot safer for us disinterested civilians (one "leader" is pretty much as bad any other with the notable exception of the Idi Amins, Saddam Husseins, Stalins etc. of the world ;)
So, what happened with this?
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