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CardJoe · 8th Jul 2009, 14:08

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/20...amera-fabric/1

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have unveiled a fabric which has the properties of a rudimentary camera.

mjm25 · 8th Jul 2009, 14:15

Will we see Stealth from this? combine a photographic layer and a projection layer in one piece of clothing and you would have enough of an image to camouflage at long distance or in largely cluttered areas.

mrb_no1 · 8th Jul 2009, 14:46

exactly my initial thought. cool stuff

Necrow · 8th Jul 2009, 15:38

Ah active camo like in BF2142 - good stuff, no use other than military or burglary but good stuff all the same

sub routine · 8th Jul 2009, 15:51

thats pretty fascinating, wallpaper the house for the ultimate surveillance tool.

SteveU · 8th Jul 2009, 16:22

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Originally Posted by Necrow

Ah active camo like in BF2142 - good stuff, no use other than military or burglary but good stuff all the same

You forgot locker rooms of the opposite sex!! lol

Turbotab · 8th Jul 2009, 16:32

A crimbo jumper from your gran, could take on very sinister connotations

Skiddywinks · 8th Jul 2009, 17:20

What wavelengths might those be?

perplekks45 · 8th Jul 2009, 17:53

I want a jumper like that! No idea what for but it would make me soooo cool!

Seriously... grow up. As impressive as it sounds, it won't be nearly as good once it's on the mass market and it'll be way overpriced and pretty useless due to the first part of this sentence.

M4RTIN · 8th Jul 2009, 22:32

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Originally Posted by perplekks45

I want a jumper like that! No idea what for but it would make me soooo cool!

Seriously... grow up. As impressive as it sounds, it won't be nearly as good once it's on the mass market and it'll be way overpriced and pretty useless due to the first part of this sentence.

are you having an argument with yourself there?

perplekks45 · 8th Jul 2009, 23:10

I just summarized some of the comments above. But after I just read it again myself... I failed.

Deadpunkdave · 9th Jul 2009, 02:24

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Originally Posted by mjm25

Will we see Stealth from this? combine a photographic layer and a projection layer in one piece of clothing and you would have enough of an image to camouflage at long distance or in largely cluttered areas.

Projection in stealth technologies is always flawed since you are taking the image of a wave at a surface then projecting that image from a point or array of points. This looks unconvincing, particularly as distance between an observer and the object varies due to the differences of far and near field diffraction from a point source. Also, no colour reproduction is perfect so there will differences between the image and projection anyway. You have to refract the actual incident light rays around the object in order for "invisibility shrouds" to work. This has been done in 2d on a small scale, browse newscientist.com or search journals for details. Still a good decade away from macroscopic applications of such technology by most estimations I'm afraid.

Skill3d · 9th Jul 2009, 23:03

well you wont be invisible with your stealth suit YET, but it will do for some ranged stuff besides if military thinks the same they'll be developing some mil'stuff which will be higher grade offcourse.... this is pretty neat tho... bring in them stealth suits...

[USRF]Obiwan · 10th Jul 2009, 09:21

Here comes the new upskirt rage...

8th Jul 2009, 14:08	#1
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perplekks45 BSc... finally Join Date: May 2004 Location: Vienna, Austria Posts: 3,350	I just summarized some of the comments above. But after I just read it again myself... I failed. __________________ "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." Blame it on Cheaps! [now a social group]

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Necrow Minimodder Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 24	Ah active camo like in BF2142 - good stuff, no use other than military or burglary but good stuff all the same

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sub routine Archie Gemel Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 150	thats pretty fascinating, wallpaper the house for the ultimate surveillance tool.

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Turbotab I don't touch type, I tard type Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: UK Posts: 1,130	A crimbo jumper from your gran, could take on very sinister connotations

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Skiddywinks Supermodder Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Caerwys, North Wales Posts: 404	What wavelengths might those be?

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Skill3d Multimodder Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 149	well you wont be invisible with your stealth suit YET, but it will do for some ranged stuff besides if military thinks the same they'll be developing some mil'stuff which will be higher grade offcourse.... this is pretty neat tho... bring in them stealth suits...

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