Posted on 02/04/2009 5:15:44 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
If your superpower of choice would be to make things disappear, you may be surprised to see how close researchers are to making it come true.
Our exclusive video, above, shows a device created at Duke University, North Carolina, that can make objects invisible to microwaves.
The team thinks its technology could be modified to work for infrared and visible light too, making it able to hide 3D objects from human eyes. The way the device steers microwaves could also give a boost to wireless communications improving signals indoors or underground, for example.
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Sounds like a good way to get run over crossing streets.....
How about some of that stuff for your girlfriends clothing when your wife comes home “suddenly”
Video: Revealing the technology of invisibilityHow does *that* work? /rimshot!
Looked more like “mildly translucent” than “invisible” to me.
Didn’t we make some future deal with the Romulans that we would develop this type of stuff?
I don’t know about a deal. I do know that Obama said he would talk to them about it without preconditions.
Tell ya what...
Convince your girlfriend that it only works when she’s naked. THen let the fun begin.
Does this work on income?
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