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[bryant]

This picture is probably the coolest picture I have seen in years. No kidding. It's a no kidding high tech not yet perfected invisibility cloak.

Go look. Now. It's a guy standing in the middle of a park and you can see right through him. It is incredibly science fictional. It's not Photoshopped.

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[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

Our company did a shoot at either the Natick Army Labs or at MIT-- I forget... anyways, it was a year or two ago- they were working on the same thing. You're right, it is really really cool.

Um... not quite

[dtm]

The impression I got was not one that would allow me to call this a cloak of invisibility.

Here's what I can see the technology leading to:

There'd be a special pair of glasses you wear that allow you to see through things covered with this cloak as though they were transparent, assuming that said object has the right type of camera sitting right behind it. In other words, this only makes you transparent to people wearing the special glasses.

In this light, the potential applications make sense - if you think of it as a general invisibility claok, it doesn't make sense that they didn't mention military applications up front.

Re: Um... not quite

[bryant]

Well, that's an awfully complex way of saying "invisibility cloak," but if it makes you happy -- sure.