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[bulldogtrekker]

From warp drives to holodecks: 7 Star Trek technologies scientists are working on
Susannah Locke , VOX

Scientists are actively working on Invisibility cloaks, telepathy, and bionic eyes.....

1) Invisibility cloaking


In the world of Star Trek, some ships can stealthily cloak themselves to become completely invisible. And in the past decade or so, researchers have actually been making headway with real invisibility cloaking.

These projects have generally involved creating sophisticated materials that can reroute light in various ways to hide objects. These materials can conceal microscopic objects from non-visible light such as microwaves.

Hiding larger objects (like a human or a ship) from smaller-wavelength light, aka visible light, is much trickier. But there have been some advances here, too. Researchers have created materials that should theoretically be able to hide things from visible light. And in June of 2014, researchers demonstrated a technique to completely hide relatively large objects — and even their shadows — as long as the object was in murky water.

And several cloaking attempts with life-size objects have used a technique called "active camouflage" by rigging up cameras. For example, in 2012 Mercedes-Benz released this ad, which combined a camera and ton of LEDs to basically turn a car into a giant video screen that showed images of what was on the car's other side, making it somewhat seem to disappear (at least from afar). Academic researchers have demonstrated similar projects using people's clothing......

want to see more? PUN INTENDED
LINK:
http://www.vox.com/2014/11/18/7222941/star-trek-technology

[Bud Brewster]

That's an extremely interesting article, BDT. Thanks. I loved the Mercedes-Benz commercial with the car equipped with a cloaking device. (Click on the image below.)

Just think -- you'd never have to wash it! Just park it in front of a clean car and everybody will think that one is yours!



* No, this is not a fake photo!

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