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From PC Magazine:
Future Watch: An Invisibility Suit
by John Brandon
Science is finally catching up with science fiction.
It started with cloaking materials, called metamaterials, developed at Ames Laboratory, at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Such materials can deflect microwave emissions around an object and restore them on the other side, rendering the object invisible. And recently the Ames Lab, which is owned by the U.S. Department of Energy, has achieved the same effect using visible light, giving metamaterial a negative refractive index. Think of it as the same visual trick that occurs when a river current flows over a rock to make it invisible.
Cool videa of the technology - here
Make me an offer or BIN only $100 for both, $60 each!
11/27/09, Moniker
Future Watch: An Invisibility Suit
by John Brandon
Science is finally catching up with science fiction.
It started with cloaking materials, called metamaterials, developed at Ames Laboratory, at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Such materials can deflect microwave emissions around an object and restore them on the other side, rendering the object invisible. And recently the Ames Lab, which is owned by the U.S. Department of Energy, has achieved the same effect using visible light, giving metamaterial a negative refractive index. Think of it as the same visual trick that occurs when a river current flows over a rock to make it invisible.
Cool videa of the technology - here
Make me an offer or BIN only $100 for both, $60 each!
11/27/09, Moniker
