Japanese Scientist Invents Invisibility Cloak & More!

Harry Potters is much better...

I get it, but I don't. Is it like Harry Potter's? Weird

Please tell me the previous poster is like... 4. -Joe

Old news. It's not an invisibility cloak at all. The objects are white, and an image of what's known to be behind it is projected onto it by a plain ol projector. Neat concept, completely impractical

It's not a front projector. The guy dancing in front of the TV, there is nothing being projected onto his tie. It's visibly in front of the TV. Same with his hands, no projections on his hands.

wow, after reading the comments on this site, I dont think Ill ever come back here....

Well it beats the fanboys on the Digg article comments right now. I'll go along with the Harry Potter cloak is cooler assessment.

I still don't get how this works. Are they actually shining a projector or are they using special viewing lense like a green screen effect?

They should create a cloak covered in that new e-ink and then broadcast the video right onto it. Each side of the cloak could have many tiny cameras that continuously broadcast the video to the opposite side all around. This would work, well once they figure out that e-ink.

good idea.

I saw something like this in PopSci a while back. The camouflage has fiber optics embedded in it. So when you look at the object you are actually seeing what is on the other side through the fiber optics. There is no projection, no mirrors, no cgi, no tricks.

no tricks my bum cheeks. if you look at the video of the asian kid moving around in front of the TV, youll clearly see that when he brings his arm up and moves right, the jacket arm dosnt project his head or hair. something the invisible cloak should do. Or do you want to contend that the jecket can tell that it's the wearers head....i think not. its a known image projected. and the tv feed is probably spliced in to follow the exact movement on screen to be another part of the illusion. rant off

Peple who think it's a projection or a trick

Click the links for more info you fools.

There are two real-time feeds being taken from two different angles. Those feeds are digitally combined in front of the device, so the user of the devices sees the super-imposed images as one.

Only the person sitting behind the device will see the effect, to everyone else it just looks like people standing around doing funny things with objects.

The device: http://www.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/hmp/images/hmp.jpg

umm..before starting a discussion on if the device is bull or not...why not first actually read what they claim the device does..for the applications they are hoping to use it for, it can work...but a cloaking device this is not..nor did they claim it on their original posting,

Maybe it works like the car in Die Another Day if that is possoble. Where tiny cameras make what is behind you appear on the coat.

I think that whether or not itz a projection doesnt matter, just think of the fun stuff u cud do with a thing like that... Why do we care about how it works, especially if it causes arguments. just so long as it goes on sale and is usable, im happy.

it uses the same video software techniques used in the HP commercial, (the one were a person holding a white frame makes pictures of himself, and again and so on) instead of a white frame wich the computer uses as a reference point to paste an image or other visual feed, here it uses a single color coat or a mirror surface or otherwise smooth one color surface to paste an video feed or camera output behind the inviseble object... youre actually watching behind the object with a camera

all of those ppl who think that it's a green screen or something...how do you know it is not real? oh and by the way neat stuff

They need to design a car like the Aston Martin in James Bond: Die Another Day. With the invisibility and the shotguns and the other unneccesary features.

ya it's semi real, and it seems like it will become usefull if you read the top. I agree though, an invisable car would kick ass but you kinda freaked me out with the weapons and stuff you would add... ^_^;

i did a science fair project on this. it's so cool

so cool. did a project on this

did a project on it too. it's wicked cool

Or it's fake and you guys are all suckers. THIS IS THE INTERNET! don't BELIEVE ANYTHING UNTIL PROVEN!!

oh shit now we can watch girls strip and take showers

you are idiots it has a camera on the back and it's like a tv almost simple.easy.

Looks totally fake. I don't know who they're fooling but it ain't me. (or anyone else for that matter)

Yeah they even fooled the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/2777111.stm

You F#$%Ksticks

Its very innovative and I want one.

if there was a camera on the back, then how come when he was at his side and it showed the side of it? hmm? and wouldnt a camera on the back of it make a smaller image to be shown?

That is called a blue or green screen . basicaly they take a shot of the background, the guy is wearing blue or green, and the items he has in his hand are painted blue or green. this makes it possible to project the background only on the blue or green areas. In fact if ths was some invisible gadget when the guy moves the ball in front of his head you should see his face behind the ball not the wall!

who the @#$% cares anyway by 2012 the world will end.

these comment arent near as bad as worldofwarcraft off topic forums

Man, you are all such dolts !
This is a HUGE breakthru in technology and you refer it to movies and tv.
The implications are enormous and lost apparently on 90% of the viewers.

Watch in slo-mo (if possible), or pausing at key points. How do the tiny mirrors/cameras/nano-bots/magic-dust-particles/whatever that coat the brick know to keep "rotating" so that even when the brick front is, for example, facing down, I (the camera) see the lettering on the sign perfectly oriented?

Why does the image being shown not fold/wrinkle with the coat, but rather remains perfectly smooth?

Pfffft.

i agree wit the 2012 guy....!!! who the @#$% cares... they got all this @#$%in info from UFO crashes for all we kno

This is a technology breakthrough...as said before. If they had gotten this information from UFO crashes, why are they just now bringing it up? And the images in the background stay their shape because they are a print of the cloth material. Compairing this with television programs and movies is showing that we are so spoiled by high graphics, that we no longer can separate reality from fiction. However, the only problem with this material is it can be used in war...which would make it unfair to the opposing side.