The Super Power Issue Being Invisible

Wired ^ | 7/03 | Wil McCarthy

[LibWhacker]

Next-gen optical camouflage is busting out of defense labs and into the street. This is technology you have to see to believe.

Invisibility has been on humanity's wish list at least since Amon-Ra, a diety who could disappear and reappear at will, joined the Egyptian pantheon in 2008 BC. With recent advances in optics and computing, however, this elusive goal is no longer purely imaginary. Last spring, Susumu Tachi, an engineering professor at the University of Tokyo, demonstrated a crude invisibility cloak. Through the clever application of some dirt-cheap technology, the Japanese inventor has brought personal invisibility a step closer to reality.

[TheBigB]

"I'm telling you, this invisibility cloak will be HUGE!"

"Nah, I just don't see it."

Ba-dump-bump. :)

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[sourcery]

FYI

[Lazamataz]

Jeez. You know what? It's all just getting to be too much. In a few short years we're likely to have everything Star Trek said was a hundred years off.

[Lazamataz]

Check out the actual display of a real first-gen invisibility jacket.

Now picture Special Forces equipped with Gen III invisibility jackets.

[LibWhacker]

I know . . . And I CAN'T WAIT!!! (I just don't want to be shot with one of those dern phaser thingies.)

[tet68]

I just got back from Botswana and am actually standing behind you while you post.

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[Lazamataz]

$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $

[Travis McGee]

Pretty cool!

[xm177e2]

Now picture Special Forces equipped with Gen III invisibility jackets.

But... I thought the point is that you can't?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Amazing stuff!