Berkeley Researchers Create an “Invisibility Cloak”

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OK, from a military perspective, what if you have a vehicle. This vehicle is parked somewhere it "shouldn't be". Since satellites are trackable and the locations of imaging satellites is known, you could at a moment's notice drape this cloak over top of the vehicle, thus rendering it invisible. All that would be seen is the cloak as if it were laying on the ground. Pretty spooky actually. If the cloak is camflougable (new word, just made it up) then even the cloak would not be seen.

Science is Cool of TX 2:30PM May 08, 2009

I saw something on tv quite a while ago. I think it was some Jane's extract on Discovery or the History channels.
It made a claim for invisibility cloak for soldiers and actually showed them in a field (of wheat?) approching a hut. The camera in the hut showed no one there.
It was way more advanced than this thing. I think the guy in charge had a Chinese name, too.
I may be a bit sketchy, it was so long ago, but I can still see the picture in my mind. It really caught my attention.
Well, it is commonly said that military research is often fifteen years ahead of what the public is made aware of.

Joan Dalton of IL 11:35AM May 07, 2009

I don't think you understood the video, or the research. Sorry.

Paul J. of NY 12:04PM May 06, 2009

What a silly claim! The diagram shows a 'mirror cloak'--not an 'invisibility' see-through cloak, that works face-on. The Berkely group did a MICROSCOPIC mirror cloak that works from the SIDE. It CANNOT be implemented as shown in the 'artist's rendition'. VERY mispleading. And why should anyone care about hiding behind a mirror? What's the big deal? Answer:the big deal is getting 'see through' invisibility cloaks that work at broad bandwidths. That isn't what this is--but a group in Massachusetts DID do this and reported it a few weeks back. They used fractals.I found the link as www.metacloak.net.
This isn't news as much as spin copy to justify NSF funding. My opinion. Yours may differ.

Josef of MD 11:38AM May 06, 2009