Invisibility cloak created in 3-D

[kicknhorse]

Scientists have created the first device to render an object invisible in three dimensions.

The "cloak", described in the journal Science, hid an object from detection using light of wavelengths close to those that are visible to humans.

Previous devices have been able to hide objects from light travelling in only one direction; viewed from any other angle, the object would remain visible.

This is a very early but significant step towards true invisibility cloaks.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8574923.stm

Thought it may interest some of you.

 

[DCG]

I am shure there are some technices that could have been used 5 years ago

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

Cool, but IIRC there's already been a lot of invisibility cloak prototypes, and all of them failed.

 

[kicknhorse]

Cool, but IIRC there's already been a lot of invisibility cloak prototypes, and all of them failed.

Yes I know, but this one seems to have worked. The only proven ones before were 2D I think.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

Cool, but IIRC there's already been a lot of invisibility cloak prototypes, and all of them failed.

Yes I know, but this one seems to have worked. The only proven ones before were 2D I think.

Could be, it's been a while since I last read/saw anything about it.

 

[DeltaBurnt]

There's a lot of these news things that are like "lol we did something from a movie in one experiment, quick everyone think that we're mad scientist gods!".

 

[Blackiris]

...what if you hide the invisibility cloak under an invisibility cloak?

Still, interesting. I wonder what its uses would be though...

 

[ProtoKun7]

I thought I posted in here...


I said I'd noticed this yesterday, but didn't read in detail. Read the BBC article this time though.

But where the hell did my post go?

 

[Slyakin]

Cool, now I can sneak around in Hogwarts and... oh, wait.


I'd love to see this public in the future. But, there is no chance in hell that it'll happen. Imagine all the security issues!

 

[megawalk]

...what if you hide the invisibility cloak under an invisibility cloak?

Still, interesting. I wonder what its uses would be though...

you get a particle laser ?

 

[Kwartel]

Imagine all the security issues!

It's only inviseble for humans

 

[zuron7]

But there s a problem to it... works only in infra-red light.

 

[shakirmoledina]

invisibility cloak - inspired from harry potter
nice idea but i think there might be a lots of flaws

 

[ProtoKun7]

invisibility cloak - inspired from harry potter
nice idea but i think there might be a lots of flaws

I hate it when it's attributed to him...cloaks have been used far earlier...

 

[lightyear]

...what if you hide the invisibility cloak under an invisibility cloak?

Still, interesting. I wonder what its uses would be though...

I'm going out on a limb here, but I can only imagine that its uses would be....well.....making things invisible