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    Killjoy: Step 1: Stock up on paintball grenades. Step 2: ...but I think you know what Step 2 is. more »
    Slinkytech: Well yea, but the whole point is not to be seen. No one ever said that it would be impossible to find a person in an invisibility cloak. I had heard... more »
    mycintosh: Thats weird, because I always feel invisible when I'm flirting with someone ... more »
    JCay: Douglas Adams said it best really: The technology required to actually make something invisible is so complex and unreliable that it isn't worth the ... more »
    Invisible-Echidna: I don't want to be completely invisible anyways... Just make me an OctoCamo suit and I'll be happy. more »
    jepzilla: The most likely early applications of invisibility cloaks are in high performance processors, telecommunications and remote sensing. The most likely ... more »
    killest: seems like it would be more effective to use a heartbeat sensor, or heat sensor to find said "invisible person" or if you're volde-thingy, you could j... more »
    Claytons: I suspect the reason companies/governments/whoever-s are spending jillions of dollars on research for invisibility is not to mask James Bond's entranc... more »
    otko: Everytime scientists get close, they magically disappear. hmm more »
    Intelext: Scientists always ruin something, i was heartbroken when they announced that pluto was no longer a planet. more »
    OCEntertainment: 'Again, too, the researchers point out that you could easily detect a by "throwing a stone at it,"' Ah, researcher. What a delightfully intelligent y... more »
    KhaiJB: Honey! where's my invisibility cloak!? more »
    ddhboy: Ok, how many military bases have sonar sensors in every room? None? well I guess the invisibility cloak would work out just fine. more »
    duroc: They only make us think invisibility cloaks don't exist.. the fact that they're working on countermeasures says otherwise. more »
    iDeNoh: and what about the fact that electronics don't even WORK in Hogwarts, what then? Where is your science now? more »
    Kamenwati: I'm telling you the solution to cloak is a modulated tachyon beam more »
    fuchikoma: Looking at the image, at first I thought this was about those mirrors designed with computer modelling to reflect an image without reversing left to r... more »
    Matthew Liang Chaboud: Normal mirrors reflect light at an angle from the surface normal of the mirror equal to the incident angle. This *can* be 90 degrees, but it's a rela... more »
    mikeness: Sweet, this will take my narcissism to the big time. By the way, I say photoshopp'd to the image above. more »
  • #invisibility

    Scientists Thwart the Invisibility Cloak (Again)

    Invisibility cloaks don't even exist (unless you're Liu Bolin), yet scientists keep trying to ruin the fun. C'mon, guys. Wouldn't it be more enjoyable to figure out the awesome uses for one instead of trying to get us all caught? More »
  • #science

    Universal Mirror: Imagine the Exact Opposite of an Invisibility Cloak

    No, the opposite of an invisibility cloak isn't a normal jacket, smartass. This universal mirror uses metamaterials to bounce light back at the same angle from which it came, so no matter where you stand, you can see yourself perfectly. More »
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    The Anti-Invisibility Cloak Discovered, NOOOOOOOOOOO!

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    Japanese Men Perfect the Cloak of Invisibility Much to Japanese Women's Dismay

    Japan's been tooling around with versions of invisibility cloaks for years now, but they seem to have finally perfected it. Theoretically. By using "left-handed metamaterials" to make electromagnetic control devices, researchers can generate lenses that either reflect no light or have a perfect focal point—the end result of which lets you create a perfect invisibility cloak to skulk around Tokyo with. If you're really interested in the physics of the situation, you can head over to Nikkeibp, but we're pretty sure the illustration above will explain the matter just fine. [Nikkeibp]
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    Invisibility Cloak Is Here (For Really Tiny, 2D People)

    US scientists have finally done it: they've created a cloak to hide an object in the visual light spectrum. The catch? This cloak is just 10 micrometres in diameter and only works in 2D space. But were still excited about the "locker room potential." More »