Anti-cloak gives vision to the invisible

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Seeing out of from the inside of an invisibility cloak requires the invention of an anti-cloak (Image: Shanghai Jiao Tong University/Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Theoretical physicists think they might have the makings of the world's first 'anti-invisibility cloak', a device which, when layered beneath an invisibility cloak, renders any object within visible again.

The 'anti-cloak' could overcome one major limitation of the invisibility cloaks being designed and built in physics laboratories across the world: when you're invisible from the outside, the outside is invisible to you.

An anti-cloak could allow a spy, whether man or machine, hidden inside a cloak to periodically peep out.

more:

http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14659-anticloak-gives-vision-to-the-invisible.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news3_head_dn14659

[dassix]

1. lol this is great

Picturing a james bondesque man randomly appearing peaking out from under his cloak.

[TaranAlvein]

2. That sounds pretty cool...

I mean, it could ALSO be a bad thing, since if criminals could get their hands on it they'd be really hard to stop if there's no counter to such a device. But purely from a spy-gadget-lover's perspective, that's really awesome.