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    the invisible man!!! (no, really...)



    Is he 'The Invisible Man' by H.G. Wells? It looks like as if three men walking behind are seen through the body of graduate student Kazutoshi Obana during a demonstration of optical camouflage technology at the Tokyo University in Tokyo Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2003. The demonstration conducted by Faculty of Engineering Prof. Susumu Tachi is an early stage of his research that will eventually enable camouflaged objects virtually transparent by wearing an optical device. This photo was taken through a viewfinder that provides with a combined image of moving images taken behind Obana and him wearing a luminous jacket that makes a transparent effect. The technology can be useful for various professions such as surgeons who wish their own fingers and surgical tools won't block the view of affected parts and pilots who wish cockpit floors were transparent for landings. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

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    "Mal nommer les choses, c'est accroître le malheur du monde" - Camus (thanks Davout)

    "I thought you must be dead ..." he said simply. "So did I for a while," said Ford, "and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. A kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic."
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  • #2
    *beeep*
    Not the first one. You also can't cover your head with that thing, unless you
    don't care about seeing around.

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    • #3
      Should we be impressed by their use of a projector?
      "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
      Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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      • #4
        IIRC, MIT has a $200 million program from the Defense Department for this kind of stuff.
        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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        • #5
          What use is this militarily? The illusion is provided by looking through a special viewfinder. Unless you can covince all your enemies to wear them?
          12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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          • #6
            KH, the military is insane

            the military gets all excited about beatles, which can sense heat farther than normal away, and want them studied so as to make better IR

            the scientists say the beatlle can sense a fwe yards, the military thinks it is a few miles

            so the military spends milliions (this was in biophysics BTW)

            there are many other examples

            JOn Miller
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            • #7
              What use is this militarily?

              What is referenced above of course isn't useful. However, they are trying to develop wearable computing technology that is useful as camouflage.

              Re the military and science, the US military spends about $50 billion per annum on research and development.
              Last edited by DanS; February 7, 2003, 18:03.
              I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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              • #8
                Looks to me like his jacket was used as a green screen.

                ACK!
                Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by DanS
                  IIRC, MIT has a $200 million program from the Defense Department for this kind of stuff.
                  yeah its something like this amount. Its all apart of the "Future Warrior" system, which is planned to include all sorts of far out stuff, like an exoskeleton to magnify human strength, speed, and indurence severl times, for example.
                  "I bet Ikarus eats his own spunk..."
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                  • #10
                    Technology like this could take stealth into a new level

                    Imagine invisible tanks, troops and aircraft?
                    A true ally stabs you in the front.

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                    • #11
                      You can find some movies here
                      Cool stuff!
                      The enemy cannot push a button if you disable his hand.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Jon Miller
                        KH, the military is insane

                        the military gets all excited about beatles

                        JOn Miller
                        You are absolutely right Getting excited about a band that split up more than 30 years ago and with half of the members already dead...
                        Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
                        And notifying the next of kin
                        Once again...

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                        • #13
                          I can do that with PhotoShop, which is a lot cheaper. In fact, if you look at the part of the image that's "in" the green cloak, it doesn't mesh with the rest. Particularly the shadows, they don't look right at all.
                          (\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
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                          • #14
                            Did you view the videos?
                            "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                            Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                            • #15
                              Yup.
                              (\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
                              (='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
                              (")_(") "Starting the fire from within."

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