This is amazing! Created 20 years ago2004-09-28 12:11:23 UTC by spark

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3791795.stm

Check this article out! It's about some guy who's developing an invisibility suit! It even has pictures!

Jahzel, no offence, but if you're going to say this is a weapon of some kind or a conspiracy, don't. I posted this merely as an amusement.

Professor Tachi's cloak works by projecting an image onto itself of what is behind the wearer.

A computer generates the image that is projected, so the viewer effectively sees "through" the cloak.

Not really an invisibility cloak.

It's still in progress, and he aims it to be fully invisble.

Whoa, I thought I dreamt of that, I guess I really did read it

Ok, this sounds very unlikely.
With a little knowledge of technology and 3D space, you can think of several counter-arguments to the idea of this thing.
1. Humans have two eyes, which allows them to see perspectively. It is possible to create holograms which appear like a 3 dimensional image, although they're kept on a flat film. But creating those holograms is technical laborious. Go to a university, many have the apparatus you need to create holographic images. Also it is not possible to create a holograme that can be viewed from 360? degrees.
2. There would have to be billions of optic sensors that scan the environment built into the suit. Even that would not suffice, there would also have to be sensors that scan the areas that cannot be seen from the surface of the suit. Look at the state of the art. We don't even have computers that can interprete the image from a single camera with a high definition in a reasonable amount of time. This computer in the suit would have to interprete billions of images at least 80 times per second.
3. What if you have multiple people looking at the suit. Which image will be displayed on the suit? You can only render the image one person would see in one frame.
4. What about light reflections? There is no solid material that does not reflect light.
5. What happens to the shadows that person who is wearing the suit casts? Every material influences the light, either it reflects it, or just changes the direction it is traveling in. The computer would also have to compensate these shadows and add shadows that would be projected onto the environment if the wearer of the suit was not there.

That's not everything. Just a few examples which are quite obvious.
Don't believe everything you read, even if it comes from the BBC.

Think outside the square!

Wow--

Amusing, but impossible with todays technology.

The first one is hardly invisable, it's a watery green.

Noticed that this suit has a different color/shape on each article.
Also you can easily fake this.
Want to see my new invisible shoes?

Want to see my new invisible shoes?

Sure, post some pics.

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People will take you more seriously if you could spell.

...and punctuation entered that sentence... where?

u2 thats the point so stfu

that doesn't even qualify as spelling, that's just geeky abbreviation.

A few letters typed wrong now and then, what's the point? Happens to all of us (and it's the main reason I'd like an edit option for my own posts...). Completely uncomprehendable blabbering is a different thing...

As for the invisible suit, sounds buggy, but perhaps he can achieve a good camouflage effect. Looking similar to your background is always better than to be fully visible, though I doubt he will achieve a total 'invisibility'.

Invisibility was achieved in the Philedelphia Experiment

http://www.bielek.com/preston.htm

Wow, I return to this thread a couple of hours later to find out it has turned into a battlefield. People here can't get along, at least it seems that way. :

True, spark...
I always wondered if there was a way to weave tiny fibre optic cables into some kind of a suit, so that each end would pass the light from one side to the other, around the wearer. This guys idea seems better. And probably works. And isnt stupid. And its a hoodie. Darn japanese, always one step ahead of me!!

Most of the world, I'd say.

w0w, like t0t411y 0MGr0fl N4RLY d00d.

I can see the strings on 'em by the way, sorry im not convinced.

Here's another picture of the suit I found:

http://www.ananova.com/images/web/42152.jpg

that is crazy! i want one!

oh

There you go!

WEWT U R TEH INVENTOR JAARZI!1!1

what?

its harry potter all over again!

lol

Perverts will use it.

I don't care what you all say its preety cool. I would so love to get my hands on a completely invisable one though... for my own purposes . They should make one thats like a wetsuit, so that you don't see crease shadows.

im with, david, my purposes...

The olny way to make this thing fully insvisible is to make the light go around it. When something doesn't reflect light, can't be seen by the unperfect human eye. Just warp the light waves around it and then bring them back to normal trajectories. No shdows, no reflection. Simple, eh?

Jahzel, your link says nothing about invisible suits.

The olny way to make this thing fully insvisible is to make the light go around it.

Like my idea?

No, but it is a link to a site which contains info on the montauk project, and the philedelphia experiment. (A US naval vessel had been rendered invisible using frequency technology researched at the Montauk facility in New York.) This was years ago, how advanced do you think they are now? (covertly?) - The Stealth Bomber is said to be able to transform itself to optically invisible and not just radar invisible, using Montauk technology. (Montauk was funded by the billions claimed from the Nazi gold train)

who in turn got it from.....space reptiles....blah blah......Bob Hope and the Queen Mum....

I'm afraid not, Mephs, sice that way diffirent POV will produce the same picture and this is not the desired effect. Instead use a powerfull elctromagnetic field to warp the light or special meterial, wich allows the light to slide over it, instead being reflected.

STFU!

jk

Instead use a powerfull elctromagnetic field to warp the light or special meterial, wich allows the light to slide over it, instead being reflected.

- which is exactly how the Philidelphia experiement was carried out. The electromagnetic field is created using some sort of frequency amplifier. Wires were 'wrapped' around the entire ship which somehow gave off electromagnetism, rendering the ship invisible - somehow disappearing into a 'green mist'. Only problem is, when the ship reappeared, most of the crew were set on fire, some went insane, and some were embedded into the steal hull of the ship.

...and then i woke up!

wow!

the prototype, is loosly applied to the term "invisible". but it is all in relavence, to how the human eye sees. So yes its not like we always thought it might be, but still gets the same effect. Almost like the (Predator) I see somebody or somthing walkin down the street in one of those im pullin out my chain gun with automatic rocket launcher and infra red googles lol hahahahaha

copper

A.nd to hazardous We didn't have computers that could communicate, or do half the stuff we do today. So anything is possible now a days. Its because of scientist like him that think outside the box, that we really get anywhere in the world today so good on him.

copper

with electromagnetic fields and stuff making it invisible would just be on radar out of sight thats all not par say invisible?

'Per se'?

...and what?

May be some extra punctoation will clarify your post. I don't get anything of it...

You want to know about a good invisibility suit, read "The Emperor's New Clothes". I think Disney did it....