Ok, this is NOT a joke, I repeat: this is NOT a joke! Remember Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak? Well, a professor at the University of Tokyo has created an optical camouflage system that makes anyone wearing a special reflective material seem to disappear. Here’s how: a video camera records the real-life scenery behind the subject, transmits that image to a front-mounted projector, which then displays the scene on the reflective material.
It’s the darnest thing I ever have seen: It’s like the special effects you see in movies for real! I admit I thought it was a hoax or a joke, but as you can see for yourself at the following links it really exists! Off course the technology is still in its early stages, but anyone can see that its just a matter of time before it really will be applicable (the japanese professor thinks it will be around 2008).
Check it out:
TIME Magazine: Coolest Inventions 2003, Invisible Technology.
cool video’s of the invisability cloak.
Again: reality seems to catch up with fantasy… What’s next?