Microwave Cloaking is Now a Reality
Scientists have made a breakthrough towards creating an invisibility device, as they succeeded easier than was thought possible to construct a microwave cloaking device. The device works only in two dimensions and only on microwaves. This first device is far from perfect in that it is barely 8-cm wide and can only reduce back scatter and forward scatter, the researchers said.
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Wow! This is so cool. But I wondered what ethical abuses this technology might have since the civilian application of it so limited. I am sure this is Peeping Tom's ultimate tool, or state security most prized tool. As shown in Ghost in the Shell, how it affect tactics can be decisive.
A BBC news on this.
