Invisablity Cloak and article……No joke, this shit’s real
This cloak invariably invokes comparisons to Harry Potter, but it’s not quite that good - yet. Japanese prof Susumu Tachi and his grad students created what they call a “retro-reflective projection system,” which basically means that what’s on one side gets projected onto the other. The jacket is made up of special reflective beads, which function like cats-eyes, reflecting almost all the light back to the source with a minimum of scattering (the effect they harness is the same one desponsible for “red-eye” in photos). When the rearward image is projected onto the front-facing beads, their shape and highly-focussed nature makes the picture look three dimensional… more or less. Each bead acts like a giant pixel. Check out the really cool video demonstration after the jump.
Ah? Where and when can I buy this fucken thing? This has been like my top 2 most desired superhero ability above the tied for first place Super Strength/Fly. I think this though, being a prototype and all, shouldn’t be available for some time. I rate it; Officially Cool 10th degree Fuck’s my Shit-upper……Release time and the people who get to play? Can Officially blow me.
