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    Now You Can Literally Create Objects Out Of Thin Air

    Imagining Life After the Invisibility Cloak

    Invisibility: Just One Facet of the Wide, Wild World of Optical Illusions

    Secrets of the Metamaterials that Will Make You Invisible

    Navy Battleship with a Cloaking Device

    One Step Closer to a True Cloaking Device

    Step into My Wormhole and Become Invisible
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    Image of phoghat phoghat
    08/20/09

    In reply to Secrets of the Metamaterials that Will Make You Invisible
    "Any sufficiently advanced...."
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/07/09

    In reply to Now You Can Literally Create Objects Out Of Thin Air
    So universities in HK are just like uni's elsewhere, and everyone's smoking a lot of dope.


    "Invisibility's just an illusion, man... I could totally make stuff disappear... *giggle*"

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    Image of zslane zslane
    07/07/09

    In reply to Now You Can Literally Create Objects Out Of Thin Air
    Are you effing kidding me? We're on the brink of Romulan Cloaking technology and all you twits can think of is how women might be able to sexually deceive you with it? Wow, this takes shallow to and all-new, er, non-deepness...
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/07/09

    @zslane: That's not true, some of them are thinking of how they might be able to sexually deceive women with it. More shallow!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/07/09

    @zslane: How dare you use a word that relates us to Twitter!
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    07/07/09

    In reply to Now You Can Literally Create Objects Out Of Thin Air
    yup i can see it now..................

    millions of hot women that turn out to be 300 pounders
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    07/08/09

    @gorehound: Does the phrase "Shallow Hal needs a gal" mean anything to you...?
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    07/07/09

    In reply to Now You Can Literally Create Objects Out Of Thin Air
    Could I use it to look at women and make it look like the clothes they're wearing are gone? If so, sign me up for a dozen.
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    Image of geekgrrl geekgrrl
    07/08/09

    @Smeagol92055: R.O.A.C.H.: such troglodytic crassness on io9! well, i never.
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    07/07/09

    In reply to Now You Can Literally Create Objects Out Of Thin Air
    I'll believe it when I see it.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/07/09

    @NerD!!! - R.O.A.C.H.: OR WHEN YOU DON'T!!! ooooohhhh.


    Seriously though, there is nothing like saying you invented something that can't work until someone else makes a breakthrough. I built a ship that can travel to other galaxies in a fraction of a second... well as long as someone else builds a sub space hyper drive.

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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    07/07/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Seriously. This sounds like a patent application for vaportech.


    While I'm at it, I've invented a universal translator that will cure cancer.


    It's Solar-powered. NOBEL PRIZE PLEASE!!!!

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/07/09

    @NerD!!! - R.O.A.C.H.: "It exists!"


    "We don't see it."


    "EXACTLY."

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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    07/07/09

    In reply to Now You Can Literally Create Objects Out Of Thin Air
    Do these pants make me look fat? Here, let me fix that. Bzzt. No more big belly either, ta da, six pack!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/07/09

    @Hamslicer: And there goes his penis. Such a tragedy.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/07/09

    @crashedpc: But what if my penis is smaller than a micrometer!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/07/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: You never admit such things on the Internet, fool!
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    07/08/09

    @Hamslicer: Yeah but in order to pull that off you'll need to befriend an Abercrombie & Fitch model to follow you around all day so you can camouflage your body with his...
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    Image of jajbowler jajbowler
    12/05/08

    In reply to Imagining Life After the Invisibility Cloak
    i truly enjoy all these awesome galleries, but i barely get to enjoy a picture from the previous one as my desktop background before a new one comes along.
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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    12/05/08

    In reply to Imagining Life After the Invisibility Cloak
    Now I can finally fulfill my "When a Stranger Calls Back" fantasies. Now I just have to learn to be a good lock pick and ventriloquist.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    12/05/08

    In reply to Imagining Life After the Invisibility Cloak
    What happens if you are in a crowd where everyone is wearing one? Do you get feedback?
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    Image of Moff Moff
    12/05/08

    @Grrsn Dn: You just blew my MIND, dog.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    12/05/08

    In reply to Imagining Life After the Invisibility Cloak
    No seriously, I can still totally see you.

    You're right...there.

    No, I won't stop poking you until you quit insisting that you're invisible.
     Reply
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    12/05/08

    In reply to Imagining Life After the Invisibility Cloak
    If it bleeds, we can kill it.
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    Image of B B
    12/05/08

    In reply to Imagining Life After the Invisibility Cloak
    Technically it would be camouflage cloak, not an invisibility cloak. With an invisibility cloak, light would pass through the object without being affected in any way. I guess you could call it a chameleon cloak as it changes appearance to blend in with the surroundings.
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    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    12/05/08

    @B: Whatevs, as long as the chameleon cloak doesn't break. I don't want to go through life as a large blue box.
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    Image of Moff Moff
    12/05/08

    In reply to Imagining Life After the Invisibility Cloak
    I'm more interested in seeing how this technology will work in, for example, a locker room. A girls' locker room.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    12/05/08

    @Moff: You're going to paint your clothes like the inside of a girl's locker room?
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    Image of Gann Gann
    12/05/08

    @Moff: All the coeds would finally have a foolproof way to hide from the eyes of perverted old men.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    12/05/08

    @Gann: OOOH! THAT'S what it was for. Phew, I thought it was cuz Moff was a pervy, no good, dirty, filthy, creepy old sleazebag.
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    Image of B B
    11/30/08

    In reply to Invisibility: Just One Facet of the Wide, Wild World of Optical Illusions
    I already invented an invisible cloak. I'll send it to you for 199.99 plus 29.99 shipping and handling. US Addresses only. Paypal or money order.
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    Image of twDarkflame twDarkflame
    12/01/08

    @B: Pff. I'll send one for that price thats invisible AND its so lightweight it cant be felt!
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    Image of B B
    12/01/08

    @twDarkflame: You're in luck. We're having a special on that just in time for Christmas. Supplies are limited, though, so place your order quickly if you want Dec 24th delivery.
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