Finally Here: Harry Potter's Invisibility Cloak

[0TheSwerve0]

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/01/25/capofdarkness.shtml

Now can we please have a sci-fi dept in schools?

 

[0TheSwerve0]

Also check out the articles linked below this one.

 

[scott1]

Now can we please have a sci-fi dept in schools?

There already is a sci-fi studies at my school

 

[russ_watters]

My guess would be that's in the psychology department, though...

How about a course in "hoaxes and crackpottery"...?

 

[fargoth]

this site is as funny as hell (looked at the other "news")


these are real photos, but the weird thing is - the photo you got on that mosnews site is courtesy of ©Tachi Laboratory, the University of Tokyo...

howstuffworks got an explanation of this tech:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/invisibility-cloak3.htm

to sum it up - the "invisibility cloak" requires you to stand infront of a half-mirror, while a camera connected to a computer is behind you, so that the image of the background is projected on your cloak...

news sites are full of cr*p.

here's the original "invention" form 2003 http://projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/oc.html
and some videos of it: http://www.thegreenhead.com/technology/2004/05/japanese-scientist-invents.php

and to end this post i'd add: "Its true, the guy driving the floating car was wearing one".

 

[Moonbear]

My guess would be that's in the psychology department, though...

I would have guessed an English department.

Of course, the article fails to notice the obvious...we can still see the guy in the picture!

 

[neurocomp2003]

i woulda guess it would be a interdisplinary programme with psych/phys/philo as the backbone.