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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: bijou on August 10, 2008, 05:38:03 PM
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The creation of the magical technology has been the subject of intense research ever since Victorian author HG Wells captivated readers with his tales of a scientist who becomes invisible after consuming a cocktail of drugs.
Now scientists at the University of California in Berkeley have developed a material that can bend light around three dimensional objects making them "disappear", according to an article on Nature magazine's website.
The research, funded by the American military, paves the way for stealth tanks, aircraft and even warships that can disappear from enemy soldiers' sights.
The technology works like water flowing around a rock. Since light is not absorbed or reflected by the object, the viewer only sees the light from behind it - rendering it invisible.
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link (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/2536271/Invisibility-cloak-dreams-could-become-reality-with-light-bending-material.html)
Because a military application will be the first thing most men think of when they read this. NOT. :-)