Invisibility at hand!

[scrat55]

Kool i need one!

Could some one get me the calculations?

 

[theRAGE]

I assume, though, that perfecting the invisibility will be difficult. Although the object may not be bouncing light off of them, if you're human, you are still emitting heat.

Damn heat

D:

Its like on Heroes! lol

 

[The_Gatekeeper_]

invisibility...I can imagine the movie hollow man coming to life :\

 

[saden99]

Lol..hollow man was something about injecting a chemical agent into the body and somehow making the cells invisible. Then it allowed the light radiation to easily penetrate the organs and kill the person...slowly.



That isn't even possible...would be cruel if it were.

Damn light radiation

 

[thefalling]

I know what you mean, it's all good and all, I know I am up for giving it a go. Just it's going cause so much trouble. People would be extra paranoid if a guy is watching them specially in the shower. O.O

It's the whole, will privacy exist anymore?

Does absolute privacy exist today? Not really, with video cameras being as small as the tip of a pencil. If that technology does in fact become popular in mainstream society, I'm sure people would start carrying thermal detection devices lol. That would be kinda messed up.



But yeah, I don't really see an advantage to society with something like that.

 

[Unie]

Scary.

 

[rinxen]

NO need to panic folks, I have just invented a pair of glasses that can see anyone trying to use invisibility.

 

[Robert]

Firstly id just like to say it is possible. Its just that the field can only divert one frequency at a time.

Essentially if you were hiding under it (its a cone shape) the people looking at you would see every frequency of light that's not the one that it is diverting. Now if the device itself is only reflecting one frequency of light, ie moon light or a laser beam, it can become totally invisible in that the light seems to pass through it.

Now if i understand it correctly i would be fairly simple for some sort of radar system to detect it. The device takes in the light and redirects it around the object. If the source was pulsating then just looking for areas where the frequency of pulses changes drastically would show the object easily.

Now if it was just cloaking it from humans since we don't have these abilities we wouldn't be able to see it. But for robots they'd still be ok with lasers and radar

But i totally agree with will be used by the military, and since the other sides don't really have westerners tech they will be rather screwed. Just think of an invisible sniper. Least ill be on the winning side

 

[iNs@nE]

This was already out in the news like an year ago with pictures.

Some Japanese guy came up with this whole new idea about using multiple photo voltaic cells to reflect the back to the front - so basically create an illusion and hence become invisible.

This one is possible too but its a similar concept.

The japanese guy infact made a prototype of his idea but because of lack of funding the guy only could get it to be partially invisible but he proved it that it can be done. I did hear that the americans were willing to sponsor the guy but no idea what happened after that.

 

[nathan123]

The First Invisibility Shield - Popular Science

Click this and check the photos. I think its true :/
Its popular science

Add-on: invisible - Popular Science

The image in the first link is blatently a rendered image so not real at all, its all theory

 

[Mara]

maybe US has already an army of invisible elite soldiers...

 

[Pieman]

maybe US has already an army of invisible elite soldiers...

Not very likely, because the first prototype has yet to be made.

 

[iNs@nE]

Not very likely, because the first prototype has yet to be made.

We cant really tell that for sure coz the US Government does not reveal half the stuff it does and it has no necessity whatsoever to do reveal it even if they did have an army of invisible soldiers. Wont that surely give them an upper hand at war? Hell yeah it would.

 

[MentaL]

its stuff like this that will end the world

 

[Pieman]

We cant really tell that for sure coz the US Government does not reveal half the stuff it does and it has no necessity whatsoever to do reveal it even if they did have an army of invisible soldiers. Wont that surely give them an upper hand at war? Hell yeah it would.

Could be, but to be honest I don't think that thing is really practical. The article talks about metal pins being placed on a cone. That sounds to me like it would break very easily, and be pretty heavy. Plus it can only bend of one spectrum of light. So I don't think it will be as successful as many people think.

 

[Iron Maiden]

Problem with that is...it's not invisible. It's bending light around the object. Think of it as a Chameleon spell instead of an invisibility spell. You can still make out the object but not entirely. :tongue:

 

[Jare]

harry potter rofl.
butchea. x]

Does absolute privacy exist today? Not really, with video cameras being as small as the tip of a pencil. If that technology does in fact become popular in mainstream society, I'm sure people would start carrying thermal detection devices lol. That would be kinda messed up.



But yeah, I don't really see an advantage to society with something like that.

Privacy, i don't know that word.

 

[Tobywan]

Invisibility cloak within our grasp | NEWS.com.au

Holy crap. I have a feeling this isn't exactly gonna improve our future.

I'm scared... (j/k)

 

[cameronmd]

Haha thefall made a point. If this does happen everyone will have them on, or rooms may be lit up so that heat will be shown or something in that line of thought. Mainly because people like (me) will be looking at girls (like you, yes you , the cute one in the back!) in the shower.... >.>

 

[TEAM/MEDICAL]

Positive + Negative On the subject "Invisibility"

I am sure the United States already developed a full working suit of camouflage in which a person can dress in and marking the person totally invisible to the naked eye

Nah nvm...i wont bother