Invisible Cloaks?

[OUSOONER]

Pretty sci-fi...but very cool. I'm going to watch this with interest.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7553061.stm

 

[Riper Snifle]

If it works like they say it does "like water over a rock" wouldn't that just make the cloak or coat invisible and not the person??

 

[Max_Power]

If it works like they say it does "like water over a rock" wouldn't that just make the cloak or coat invisible and not the person??

I could be wrong, but i've heard that this type of technology is supposed to "bend light around the object" or something like that, so anything under the cloak would be hidden too.

 

[BACONATOR]

This was in popular science and popular mechanics magazines at least like 5 years ago. What's new?

 

[Lobster]

Come on...harry potter has had this for years...old news...

 

[Krys]

Come on...harry potter has had this for years...old news...

aw that's what I was going to say :icon_tong

 

[Kycntryboy]

If it works like they say it does "like water over a rock" wouldn't that just make the cloak or coat invisible and not the person??

"Now where in the hell did I put that blanket...."

 

[snake020]

This was in popular science and popular mechanics magazines at least like 5 years ago. What's new?

Indeed. This is the same subject with a 2004 date I bookmarked when it came out:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3791795.stm

Here's another good one, archived as the site is down or slow to load:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040429...tar.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/oc.html

 

[Kycntryboy]

For anybody not in a science background, the fact that these guys are publishing in Nature and Science means they got some good shit as far as data goes.

 

[Lobster]

"Now where in the hell did I put that blanket...."

Haha...so true, could present problems. Or does it come with an on/off switch?

 

[AJB37]

Looks like we won't be invisible anytime soon.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/08/highly-publiciz.html

 

[OUSOONER]

where is that guys facts on his blog? don't ruin my dream.

 

[AJB37]

where is that guys facts on his blog? don't ruin my dream.

I have no idea, I think he is just stating that the press have over-hyped the abilities of the material. Which really isn't too hard to believe.

 

[Aether]

Click on the links in the text and read those articles too. Particularly the "did not buy into" one.

 

[Mumbles]

Anybody remember that the USN "supposedly" tried this concept with warships in WW2.... sounds kind of like McHale's Navy meets the X-files to me!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Experiment
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq21-1.htm