Light Fantastic: Flirting With Invisibility

NY Times ^ | June 12, 2007 | KENNETH CHANG

[neverdem]

David Schurig/Duke University
NOW YOU SEE IT Duke researchers built a simplified version of their cloaking device out of copper rings and wires patterned onto fiberglass sheets and demonstrated that it successfully diverted microwaves.
Flirting With Invisibility

The Bending of Light

The Fantasy of the Invisible Man and Machine

[Savage Beast]

It won’t be long before we’ll be getting tarnhelms for Fathers Day.

[RachelFaith]

I almost didn’t see this post...

[mkjessup]

I’ve already got a working cloaking device on my car, everytime I go anywhere, I can count on a bunch of ignorant SOBs pulling out in front of me, damn near causing a wreck, and the only possible explanation is that they can’t see me, which means that my cloaking device does NOT have an ‘off’ switch, and that really p*sses me off.

[saganite]

This only proves they are watching us and are among us. If we can develop this technology, the LGM’s have had it for centuries. ———OK, I’m going to go get some more tinfoil now.

[Tainan]

If I remember correctly, I think “Invisible” is one of the 10 Stages of Drunkenness.

[sig226]

That’s awesome! Scientific American ran an article on this in November of last year, and now the Times is running with it. They’re only eight months behind the rest of us. That’s not bad for a daily newspaper.

They might even catch up some day!

[Silly]

“An alien with microwave vision”

Reading that phrase makes me think of Rosie O’Donnell and Hot Pockets.

[toddlintown]

Anybody seen my car keys?

[ZinGirl]

ummm...but I can see it.

[ovrtaxt]

Big deal. Refrigerators already comes equipped with these. My kids will stand ther with the door opened and stare at shelf after shelf of food, exclaiming ‘There isn’t ANYTHING to eat!’

[LIConFem]

Your keys are right here. But I can’t see you!

[LIConFem]

And I’m told that if you visit the ‘fridge too often, your feet will eventually disappear.

[ovrtaxt]

har!!

[finnigan2]

“You’d see a darkened spot,” said David R. Smith, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke. “You’d see some distortion, and you’d see some shadowing, and you would see some reflection.”

- I think Hillary Clinton already has one of these gadgets because that’s the way she’s looked to me for some time now.

[bolobaby]

I think *I* would like to flirt with invisibility!

[Thermalseeker]

and demonstrated that it successfully diverted microwaves.

I could have saved them a bunch of money. All you need to divert microwaves is a properly placed piece of aluminum tin foil......

[Thermalseeker]

If I remember correctly, I think “Invisible” is one of the 10 Stages of Drunkenness.

Two others are the illusion of being 10' tall and bullet proof.....

[neverdem]

In the Adirondacks, a Battle Against an Aggressive Green Invader from the Deep

Global Warming Reversal: Sea Surface Temperatures Plunge to Coldest Temperatures in Six Years.

Climate alarmists lose another piece of evidence

FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.

[uglybiker]

Reading that phrase makes me think of Rosie O’Donnell and Hot Pockets.

Rosie O'Donnell. The only person who stands in front of a microwave overn and screams: "HURRY!!"