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I have seen the asian guy wearing the invisibility cloak in videos for nearly 4 years now. Give me something new..
Also worth noting that from what I found online that invisibility cloak is basically useless. From what I can dig up the image shown is just a guy with a Projector Screen material cloak and a projector shining on him. That works great as long as you can setup ahead of time and as long as you don't have to move.
Now supposedly someone is working on actually bending light around 3D objects but there doesn't appear to be much info on how they are doing it or what that would look like. Just a lot of articles saying that it "can be done".
I'm sick of seeing all of these novelty gadgets that are basically useless in the real world. This cloak is nothing more than a glorified projector screen like eggman said. Also, that "jetpack" I keep seeing everywhere can only be flown if you way less than 110 lbs. @eggman, if you want to find more info on the cloaking device you were speaking of, do a google search on the duke cloacking device using metamaterials. Currently, they can only bend microwaves and radio waves around. But, they are only limited by how small they can build the metamaterials. The sooner we advanced are preision in nanotechnology the sooner we will be able to bend visible light. Just be patient.
I have seen the asian guy wearing the invisibility cloak in videos for nearly 4 years now. Give me something new..
--------You say you've seen the news four years ago??!!My god!
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