New York scientists 'invisibility cloak'

[sky otter]

not sure where to post this  so until someone decides it's here




http://news.msn.com/science-technology/new-york-scientists-unveil-invisibility-cloak-to-rival-harry-potters



New York scientists unveil 'invisibility cloak' to rival Harry Potter's


Reuters  14 hr ago | By Caurie Putnam   of Reuters

ROCHESTER N.Y. (Reuters) - Watch out Harry Potter, you are not the only wizard with an invisibility cloak.


Scientists at the University of Rochester have discovered a way to hide large objects from sight using inexpensive and readily available lenses, a technology that seems to have sprung from the pages of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter fantasy series.

Cloaking is the process by which an object becomes hidden from view, while everything else around the cloaked object appears undisturbed.

"A lot of people have worked on a lot of different aspects of optical cloaking for years," John Howell, a professor of physics at the upstate New York school, said on Friday.

The so-called Rochester Cloak is not really a tangible cloak at all. Rather the device looks like equipment used by an optometrist. When an object is placed behind the layered lenses it seems to disappear.

Previous cloaking methods have been complicated, expensive, and not able to hide objects in three dimensions when viewed at varying angles, they say.

"From what, we know this is the first cloaking device that provides three-dimensional, continuously multidirectional cloaking," said Joseph Choi, a graduate student who helped develop the method at Rochester, which is renowned for its optical research.

In their tests, the researchers have cloaked a hand, a face, and a ruler – making each object appear "invisible" while the image behind the hidden object remains in view. The implications for the discovery are endless, they say.

"I imagine this could be used to cloak a trailer on the back of a semi-truck so the driver can see directly behind him," Choi said. "It can be used for surgery, in the military, in interior design, art."

Howell said the Rochester Cloak, like the fictitious cloak described in the pages of the Harry Potter series, causes no distortion of the background object.

Building the device does not break the bank either. It cost Howell and Choi a little over $1,000 in materials to create it and they believe it can be done even cheaper.

Although a patent is pending, they have released simple instructions on how to create a Rochester Cloak at home for under $100:

http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/watch-rochester-cloak-uses-ordinary-lenses-to-hide-objects-across-continuous-range-of-angles-70592/

There is also a one-minute video about the project on YouTube:

[astr0144]

Yet another Sci Fi topic becoming reality !




Where could this go or end !

Will we know whats what !...will we find us bumping into things hidden ?

A Paranormal investigator told me of a Supermarket  Car Park in the UK where cars have reversed into a car space and hit something that damaged their cars...when they got out to look what they hit, nothing was there! They have since placed  something permanent in that space...like a Bin or something...

Maybe this sort of thing has been around for sometime... and no doubt ETs have it if they exist !

Can this also be used to make Humans invisible as they move around..like the invisible man...

Again Id suspect ETs could have such a thing..

It may also explain some ghost sightings..

[Wrabbit2000]

I'm thinking that coupled with the nano invisibility sheet which was reported on some time ago in a prototype form and the infrared cloaking/masking system that made a tank look like a Volkswagen beetle, courtesy of BAE Systems, the future won't be a brighter place at all. After all, we may not see the most interesting parts of it. We'll just hear them buzzing by or buzzing overhead.

Then again, there is also that saying about what we publicly see as new ideas being about 10 years beyond that stage, too. Hmmmm....

Now I wonder how an enterprising person would go about countering the illusion?

[astr0144]

If they can also mask the sounds...Maybe the only way we will be able to tell what maybe is real, is  with Infared or some sort of heat detection....

Otherwise I cannot see us knowing what is reality !

Imagine having Invisible people stood right next to us and not being aware of it !  How concerning ...

Can you imagine what it may be like..being able to enter places undetected....and Bank Robbers may have a heyday !....

Maybe gives us all a chance to get rich if we had such a means....

[ArMaP]

I suggest the reading of The Invisible Man.

[astr0144]

I remember seeing a couple or so  Movies about it and a TV series...many years ago...I think it was David McCallum  who starred in it..

[ArMaP]

As the goat that was eating the movie said to the other goat, "the book was better".

PS: I have yet to see a movie made from a H. G. Wells story that is as good as the book.

[burntheships]

PS: I have yet to see a movie made from a H. G. Wells story that is as good as the book.

I second this, and goldfor ArMaP.

[The Seeker]

wrabbit, the tech gap between what they have and what they let us know about is more like forty years...

fur your viewing pleasure and enjoyment



an example of a 'chameleon' suit...

seeker

[Wrabbit2000]

Truth be known on this, I was being a little subtle about it but I do think this basic concept is well developed technology.

I had a friend I trained in trucking back in the late 90's. He'd been Army special forces before leaving the military and that only bears to mention for why he was out in the woods of Fort Bragg on a field problem one night. He told me they were watching an open area and on the I.R. scope, could clearly see two guys crossing it, some distance away. Visually? There was absolutely nothing there. Empty field. Not even a shimmer. In I.R.? Clear definition of the guys as they went. That was a long time ago in technology terms.

My thoughts on overhead noise go back to 2011/2012. I recognize a couple folks here that I recall in the discussions of all that around the net back then. Some of that was mechanical ground noise. Some were jet or other testing and the vagaries of audio for how it travels in weird ways at times. Some? Well.... I firmly believe that some of those were exactly what they sounded like. Very large, very slow moving aircraft that could be heard clearly and even felt for the deep bass effect of whatever they call engines. Visually? Nothing there. Even when you could hear the doppler shift as clear as day to just about know where something should be in a video or recording? Empty skies, in appearance anyway.  The use for the technology is endless and disturbing, IMO.

[sky otter]

yeah I know this may sound a bit strange to some
but if you work on developing your senses as a info gathering system you can 'sense' this kind of thing yourself..it is not a 6th sense ..but a combination of all your senses

nothing will be invisible or unheard

you will be surprised at what is here with us  or maybe not