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December 10, 2005
Optical camouflage
Invisibility, an impossible dream depicted in science fiction.
Not really, actually optical camouflage is old hat. We live in time where a stealth suit was called the coolest invention of 2003 by Time magazine.
Professors Inami, Seguchi and Tachi at the University of Tokyo invented a transparent cloak by projecting a background image taken by a video camera onto the masked object. By this you can observe the masked object just as if it were virtually transparent. Some of the films they have on their site are truly mind-boggling.
Where will this see commercial applications first? Probably not in the military field, but with the rapid development of flexible electronics it could well see use in medicine
Posted by Waldemar at December 10, 2005 11:04 PM