How would you use an invisible blanket?

[CBC News]

Scientists say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people and objects invisible.
U.S. researchers have demonstrated for the first time they were able to cloak three-dimensional objects using artificially engineered materials that redirect light around the objects. Previously, they only had been able to cloak very thin two-dimensional objects.
The new work moves scientists a step closer to hiding people and objects from visible light, which could have broad applications, including military ones.
People can see objects because they scatter the light that strikes them, reflecting some of it back to the eye. Cloaking uses materials, known as metamaterials, to deflect radar, light or other waves around an object, like water flowing around a smooth rock in a stream.
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Scientists say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people and objects invisible.
U.S. researchers have demonstrated for the first time they were able to cloak three-dimensional objects using artificially engineered materials that redirect light around the objects. Previously, they only had been able to cloak very thin two-dimensional objects.
The new work moves scientists a step closer to hiding people and objects from visible light, which could have broad applications, including military ones.
People can see objects because they scatter the light that strikes them, reflecting some of it back to the eye. Cloaking uses materials, known as metamaterials, to deflect radar, light or other waves around an object, like water flowing around a smooth rock in a stream.
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....if big enough -- to make Harpo & ass. -- go away

 

[quandary121]

And where did they get the idea for such materials i wonder..??? could this be more of the back-engineering ive heard about from UFO crashes, or is this something that they came up with in their spare time ,if i had a blanket of this sort i would use it to prevent the governments and there cronies from ever knowing of my existence i would not need to work as i could take what i needed without being seen also i could quite possibly sleep in Buckingham palace or the house of commons the possibility's are endless,but in reality they would never be sold to the public as it would cause mayhem and anarchy.

 

[eh1eh]

Quandry? Did you miss the "X-Files... Fight the Future." movie in 99?

Really tied up all those loose ends.



OK so it might be a 'visibility masking' blanket but not actually an 'invisibility' blanket. You know, in reality, as apposed to what the media wants to say, for sensationalism and all that sh!t

 

[quandary121]

Quandry? Did you miss the "X-Files... Fight the Future." movie in 99?

Really tied up all those loose ends.



OK so it might be a 'visibility masking' blanket but not actually an 'invisibility' blanket. You know, in reality, as apposed to what the media wants to say, for sensationalism and all that sh!t

No m8 i totally missed that..! i don't have a tv, and live so far away from the nearest town, that if i did go to the cinema ,i couldn't get home again,was it any good.? I do remember before i went on my travels that moldy & scaby were on the tv, and it did kind of get all same old same old so i stopped watching ,at that point oh well guess i will never know...no biggy ;-)

 

[Lester]

They stole it from the Klingons--Kaplah!

 

[L Gilbert]

Jeeeez. I saw an article on this last year in SciAm I think. Maybe Science Mag or New Scientist. Gosh, CBC News is as slow as CanPost.

 

[karrie]

What would I do with an invisible blanket? Nothing where ordinary fabric wouldn't suffice frankly.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Every 14-year old boy in the world will want one, to sneak into the women's changing room at the swimming pool with his cell phone camera. And they'll all be bitterly disappointed to discover that they can't see through it from the inside, so there'll be apparently disembodied faces and hands holding cameras floating around women's changing rooms for a while, until the women get wise (shouldn't take more than a few minutes), then there'll be a lot of bruised 14-year old boys clutching smashed cell phones around for a while.

The most likely thing I'd use one for is sneaking up on wildlife. I'm a photographer (just a hobby, not a pro), most wild critters are pretty shy of humans, with good reason, and my budget for photo gear doesn't extend to the kind of *really* long lenses I'd like to have.

Might be amusing to wrap one around yourself and go for a drive...

 

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Every 14-year old boy in the world will want one, to sneak into the women's changing room at the swimming pool with his cell phone camera. And they'll all be bitterly disappointed to discover that they can't see through it from the inside, so there'll be apparently disembodied faces and hands holding cameras floating around women's changing rooms for a while, until the women get wise (shouldn't take more than a few minutes), then there'll be a lot of bruised 14-year old boys clutching smashed cell phones around for a while.

The most likely thing I'd use one for is sneaking up on wildlife. I'm a photographer (just a hobby, not a pro), most wild critters are pretty shy of humans, with good reason, and my budget for photo gear doesn't extend to the kind of *really* long lenses I'd like to have.

Might be amusing to wrap one around yourself and go for a drive...

I hadn't given your last sentence a thought. I like it. Good idea.