From the "Where Do They Find the Time" Dept, via Clive Thompson's collision detection:
Chinese scientists unveil "the anti cloak" -- technique for defeating invisibility shields
Okay, the war over "invisibility cloaks" has officially begun. A team of Chinese scientists have just announced that they've figured out how to defeat invisibility technology -- and render "invisible" objects visible.You may remember the famous experiment in 2006 in which Duke University scientists created an "invisibility cloak" -- a wave-morphing shield that allowed them to render an object mostly invisible to microwave beams. (Check out a video of their original demonstration here; it's pretty cool.) This generated endless news stories that breathlessly invoked Harry Potter; more hilariously yet, it set off a mini-boom in researchers frantically working on their own invisibility cloaks.
And you thought they just did this stuff in Batman movies.
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Tags: invisibility, spy tech, Clive Thompson, Optics Express, Anti-Cloak, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Huanyang Chen, Hongru Ma, Xudong Luo, Duke University