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[VIDEO] Cloaking - Making objects disappear

[VIDEO] Cloaking - Making objects disappear | Science News | Scoop.it
What if you could hide something in plain sight? It could be possible using cloaking technologies.
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[VIDEO] Thousands of Invisibility Cloaks Trap a Rainbow

Video abstract for the article 'Experimental demonstration of a broadband array of invisibility cloaks in the visible frequency range ' by V N Smolyaninova, I I Smolyaninov and H K Ermer (V N Smolyaninova et al 2012 New J. Phys. 14 053029).


INVISIBILITY CLOAKS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?q=invisibility+cloaks

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Science Fiction or Fact: Invisibility Cloaks Will One Day Exist

Science Fiction or Fact: Invisibility Cloaks Will One Day Exist | Science News | Scoop.it
Harry Potter and Star Trek invisibility cloaks might be tough to pull off.
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[VIDEO] Now in Fashion: Invisibility Cloaks

[VIDEO] Now in Fashion: Invisibility Cloaks | Science News | Scoop.it

An invisibility cloak? That sounds like science fiction. Until now. Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin unveiled the results from an experiment in which they were able to conceal a three-dimensional object from microwaves by covering it with a plasmonic material that disguises light and makes the object invisible from all angles.

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Time Cloak Hides Very Brief Events [Animation]

Time Cloak Hides Very Brief Events [Animation] | Science News | Scoop.it
For years physicists have been refining invisibility cloaks—physical setups that cleverly reroute light around a region in space, effectively concealing any object that might be inside. ...
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An Invisibility Cloak With An On-Off Switch

An Invisibility Cloak With An On-Off Switch | Science News | Scoop.it
Physicists have worked out how to build invisibility cloaks that hide objects with the flick of a switch...
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Cloak of invisibility: Engineers use plasmonics to create an invisible photodetector

Cloak of invisibility: Engineers use plasmonics to create an invisible photodetector | Science News | Scoop.it
A team of engineers at Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania has for the first time used 'plasmonic cloaking' to create a device that can see without being seen - an invisible machine that detects light.
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'Invisibility' cloak could protect buildings from earthquakes

'Invisibility' cloak could protect buildings from earthquakes | Science News | Scoop.it
University of Manchester mathematicians have developed the theory for a Harry Potter style 'cloaking' device which could protect buildings from earthquakes.
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When will they invent ... Invisibility Cloaks?

When will they invent ... Invisibility Cloaks? | Science News | Scoop.it

THEY HELPED Frodo Baggins escape the attentions of the eye of Sauron in The Lord of the Rings , and the young wizard, Harry Potter, dash past Prof Snape in Hogwarts. But when will invisibility cloaks escape from fantasy and enter reality?

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Researchers transfer the concept of an optical invisibility cloak to sound waves

Progress of metamaterials in nanotechnologies has made the invisibility cloak, a subject of mythology and science fiction, become reality: Light waves can be guided around an object to be hidden, in such a way that this object appears to be...
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