invisibility
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Backing Up Is A Lot Easier When Your Car’s Back Seat Is Invisible
The last time Keio University was in the news it was for a prototype wearable cloaking device developed by a team of researchers at the school. A decade later you still can’t go out and buy one, but the research has inspired another brilliant use for the technology — invisible car interiors that let you…
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Scientists Completely ‘Cloak’ Three-Dimensional Objects For The First Time
Hiding behind a life-sized negative of yourself won’t actually turn you invisible. But researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have figured out how to use that same idea to make real-world objects vanish when shot with microwave energy.
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Scientists Punch A Hole In The Fabric Of Time With A ‘Time Cloak’
What a preposterous world we live in, where developments in invisibility cloak tech are common enough to draw yawns. Fine, you unmovable automatons, how about a time cloak? Is that something you might be interested in?
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This Device Makes Objects Invisible To Sonar
How do you make an underwater invisibility cloak? You start by creating a device that can manipulate sonar waves. This small cylinder, developed by researchers at the University of Illinois, does just that.