EETimes.com – Duke takes wraps off cloaking device — Yikes. Wow.
The cloaking technique worked by using a metamaterial as a shield to redirect microwaves around the cloak. Duke researchers said they hope to create invisibility cloaks for other types of electromagnetic radiation, causing even visible light to flow around shielded regions.
“The movement of the [microwaves] is similar to river water flowing around a smooth rock,” said David Schurig, a Duke postdoctoral fellow. The “warped ‘threads’ could not interact with, or ‘see,’ objects placed inside the resulting hole,” he said.
Looks like a mini warp drive.
More “Star Trek” tech coming true. Wow.
super neat, when can I get my cloaking cloak?
And here’s the original:
Duke cloak demo
F.
not to discount it or play it down, but how much energy does this technology take to “cloak” something? I would imagine that it is fairly significant right now… aka how feasible is this?
You need to read the article. It involves microwaves, and a narrow wavelength. Do any of you think that the US Government would allow this to be published if it really was a scifi like cloaking device? If you talked you would be in a cabin on the North Slope of Alaska for 20 years, at best.
#6 not yet, but if you can cloak a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, its only a matter of time before they can do the same with the lower frequency visible light spectrum. They proved it can be done. It will need more research and money to bring it to its logical end. I see many defense contract jobs for this team.
#5 The power required to run such a device is negligible when coupled with an anti-matter reaction, facilitated by a dilithium matrix core.
oh and it takes 1.21 GIGAWATTs !!!!!!!!!
This is a neato idea, but…
What’s the purpose? All I can see is this sort of technology being perverted into something dreadful.
These people must be physicists and materials scientists, wouldn’t it be a better use of their time to figure out how to make a Fusion Reactor?
Think…
Captain, I’m concerned there may be Romulan warbirds in this sector.
Not to worry Mr Spock, all we can see are hundreds of cloaking devices hanging around. Nothing inside of them, though.
What’s wrong with a cloaking device that can’t hide itself? Just asking.
Hahahaha, I bet this is the last time we hear of this tech for the next 40 years.
They should make one for pets with teenagers in the house!
Sounds like an invisible microwave to me. Frankly I want to SEE my food cooking. I can’t see how you could cloak people in this thing with out getting your brain fried from the microwaves.