Scientists closer to developing invisibility cloak

[rebgirl420]

Scientists closer to developing invisibility cloak
WASHINGTON (AP) - 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.

My Way News - Scientists closer to developing invisibility cloak

You know you want one haha. How many times have you been at work and just thought, "Fuck these people....what I need is an invisibility cloak!"

rebgirl420 Reviewed by rebgirl420 on 08-13-2008. Scientists closer to developing invisibility cloak Scientists closer to developing invisibility cloak WASHINGTON (AP) - 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 Rating: 5

[Dream of the iris]

oh man...terrorists are gonna have a field day with this one....if it ever comes down to that.

[SunnyD]

This has so many uses...

Use when the woman of the household is in a "Uh Oh!!" Mood

Use as a cover for your really nice car during halloween

Use as a cloak when you're late to work, sneak in without getting ratted on!! Sept it won't fix the punch clock...

Use as a "Grow Tent"

Use to spy on potentially cheating spouse - I smell a new season of "Cheaters"

The list goes on and on

[trancefusion5]

So much potential!! My mind is racing with ideas! Some good some not so much... :jointsmile:

Id put it over my outdoor grow! Take that "eye in the sky"!!! :thumbsup:

[Priincesss]

"Fuck these people....what I need is an invisibility cloak!"

hahaha, I'm more along the lines of 'fuck these people, what I need is a gun, shoot all them mothafukas'

man, your so right though, I really do want one... oh everything I could get into

[fishman3811]

wow id love to walk into my banks vault and help myself.....or even the womans locker room at a gym

[rebgirl420]

^
Hahaha your invisible Fishman, not invincible to being tazered or punched.

:dance:

[fishman3811]

lol good point BUT you cant tazer what u cant see eh eh