Comments on: Invisibility cloak on the horizon, scientists say

Researchers say they are a step closer to developing materials that bend visible light in a way that eliminates the creation of reflections or shadows.

[d3vildog69]

Oh man... I want one.. The things i could do.... 0.0

[mjd420nova]

You may be invisible to the eye but can never escape the infra-red. I use a portable infra-red scanner with handheld camera and display that is sensitive to one fifth of a degree centigrade. Try to defeat that. You body or whatever you care to use will still emit infra-red light in correlation to the heat of the object. If I can see the heat left behind by a cats feet on a tile floor, then I will see anything this technology is mounted on.

[batvette]

Think of how fighter planes deploy chaff and flares, to foil targeting by radar and heat seeking missiles respectively. Nobody could sneak by you with you not thinking something is amiss, that may be true. Your device would however be easily rendered useless to detect what it was, or target it, if overwhelmed by a brief yet massive disturbance in environmental ambient temperature. This thought just came to me after reading your post so I don't have on the tip of my tongue a current method of causing such a thermal smokescreen, but you seem above average intelligence so can probably imagine the plausibility. Or go even further and destroy your thermal camera's detection sensors outright. Maybe some kind of plasma shield which extends a thermal wall? They are now working on plasma projectiles, so...

[Button Boy]

I am looking forward to the "invisible budget items" that will be used to fund such research.

[tipoo_]

"Aw crap, where did we put the damn thing?"

[chrissd]

@ralfthedog

That was the -only- story. The rest has been said so many times before it's boring.

[MFox1948]

Wow, just what the world needs! How about ending the waste of money on this foolishness and cure cancer, diabete, etc. Or spend the money on national healthcare, affordable housing, ending hunger, and a few other things that come to mind.

This was another tax payer funded military project that adds to an already to heavily funded department of defense / Pentagon budget How about cutting their funding by 75%.

[gmhendo]

Give it break . Do you think this is going to be good for Mankind? Or will it just be another war-tool. Already the military has its dark hand on it.
We have enough technology. Use the money to beat down climate change, feed someone or save them from disease. But enough of this expenditure please...

[t8]

I bought one of Amazon and when the package turned up it was empty.

[m16alpha2]

It is not the loons who are old news and always a constant in every new development that concern me with nanos. I do agree with warnings about misuse of power as a good reminder.

After thinking a day or two about the long term security impact of this material I have the following question?

Can the nano objects be recycled into other things after the item they were first made into is no longer operable? If so, could those objects become by accident difficult to see?

I mean, I may be tripping around a back yard and fall over a fence post..... m16alpha2

[hassan_bin_sober]

Well I know it's not working for Perez Hilton.

[Tomofumi]

I can only think of all those bad things you can do when you are invisible, anyone think of any good use of this technology at all?