gizmowatch.com - 8/11/2008
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The UC Berkley scientist team has made a major development towards creating a cloak that is 100% invisible. The team, led by scientist Xiang Zhang, has developed a prototype material called metamaterials , which is a composite of materials like ceramic, Teflon and fiber. This material scatters visible light, with the goal of bending the light rays around the covered objects. ...
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gizmodo.com - 8/11/2008
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gizmodo.com —
University of California scientists today announced that significant
progress has been made toward developing "metamaterials" for use...
in a legitimate invisibility cloak. The researchers, led by mad scientist Xiang Zhang, were able to demonstrate for the first time that they could cloak 3-D objects with these materials. As the article notes, and as we've shown here on Gizmodo in the past, ...
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US scientists : invisible man to become reality soon
TechChee.com, shop online for gadget, gizmo and hot tech stuff —
... much easier to sneak into a highly private area. There will be some good uses with this invisible cloak, such as used by the army for carrying out high level undercover reconnaissance mission at the enemy territories. Of course, when it falls into the wrong hands, then it’ll bring lots of trouble to the society. At the moment the cloak is still at the prototype stage, which is quite close to 100% but still needs more efforts to make it to work exactly at 100% to scatter all lights. via [gizmowatch] invisible man,sci-fi news,invisible cloak Technorati Tags: ...
L’homme invisible bientôt une réalité
w3sh magazine —
... carbone.
Le meta-materiau est capable de dévier la lumière et ses rayons autour d’un objet 3D afin de le rendre invisible à l’oeil humain.
Le concept est le suivant : l’oeil humain peut voir un objet parce qu’il reflète les rayons de lumière qui viennent l’éclairer. L’idée est donc d’empêcher les rayons de refléter sur un objet en quelque sorte de les absorber. Ainsi, l’objet devient invisible pour l’oeil humain.
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We're only at the nano scale folks so you'll have to keep those high school fantasies of an invisibility-cloaked romp through the girls' locker room tucked away for now. Still, two teams of US government funded researchers under the direction of Xian Zhanga at UC Berkeley say that they've developed a material which can bend visible light around 3D objects, effectively making them ...
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Scientists say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people and objects invisible. This feat is accomplished by using Metamaterials able to reroute light, forcing light around objects like water flowing around boulders in a stream. The waves of light come in and are swept around the cloak and reconstructed on the other side while avoiding the interior region, so ...
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University of California scientists today announced that significant progress has been made toward developing "metamaterials" for use in a legitimate invisibility cloak. The researchers, led by mad scientist Xiang Zhang, were able to demonstrate for the first time that they could cloak 3-D objects with these materials. As the article notes, and as we've shown here on Gizmodo in the past, ...
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