Tastes Like Chicken Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Meh, big deal. Old news. The Skins offense has been employing this technology all year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teller Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Did you check out that YouTube video of the japaneese technology... comercially availible.. solid state...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKPV...ility-cloak.php look at the guys hands. Look at the guys tie. the images aren't projected onto the material but are reflected from the material in real time. I can't see youtube vids at work. I'll definitely check it out when I get home though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teller Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Did you check out that YouTube video of the japaneese technology... comercially availible.. solid state...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKPV...ility-cloak.php look at the guys hands. Look at the guys tie. the images aren't projected onto the material but are reflected from the material in real time. I can't see youtube vids at work. I'll definitely check it out when I get home though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Meh, big deal. Old news.The Skins offense has been employing this technology all year. well they don't seem to be going anywhere with it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Meh, big deal. Old news.The Skins offense has been employing this technology all year. well they don't seem to be going anywhere with it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 oh, and here's a working link: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 oh, and here's a working link: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seabee1973 Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Meh, big deal. Old news.The Skins offense has been employing this technology for four years. fixed your typo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seabee1973 Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Meh, big deal. Old news.The Skins offense has been employing this technology for four years. fixed your typo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chump Bailey Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 I thought I read somewhere that Delta Force has camouflage comprised entirely of small mirrors that allows them to become essentially 'invisible' as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chump Bailey Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 I thought I read somewhere that Delta Force has camouflage comprised entirely of small mirrors that allows them to become essentially 'invisible' as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raub Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 "it's the mirrs" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raub Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 "it's the mirrs" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacase Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 The Army has been working on a "predator suit" for while as well as sound projection technology for special operations teams. They uniform will also be able to sense incoming bullets and will harden before impact as well as being able to sense injuries and provide immediate first aid such as splints and slowing blood flow to the wound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacase Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 The Army has been working on a "predator suit" for while as well as sound projection technology for special operations teams. They uniform will also be able to sense incoming bullets and will harden before impact as well as being able to sense injuries and provide immediate first aid such as splints and slowing blood flow to the wound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedlightG20 Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 The Army has been working on a "predator suit" for while as well as sound projection technology for special operations teams. They uniform will also be able to sense incoming bullets and will harden before impact as well as being able to sense injuries and provide immediate first aid such as splints and slowing blood flow to the wound. I'd hate to be the guy that has to field test that thing. As for this invisibility stuff, its all smoke and mirrors. I've seen the Japanese invisible suit, that I can believe. But a tank, that constantly rolls loudly through grass, fields, and dirt? I just can't see how effective it will be with its footprint, noise, and questionable reliability of its current camera system. Just sounds like fluff to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedlightG20 Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 The Army has been working on a "predator suit" for while as well as sound projection technology for special operations teams. They uniform will also be able to sense incoming bullets and will harden before impact as well as being able to sense injuries and provide immediate first aid such as splints and slowing blood flow to the wound. I'd hate to be the guy that has to field test that thing. As for this invisibility stuff, its all smoke and mirrors. I've seen the Japanese invisible suit, that I can believe. But a tank, that constantly rolls loudly through grass, fields, and dirt? I just can't see how effective it will be with its footprint, noise, and questionable reliability of its current camera system. Just sounds like fluff to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMS Posted November 1, 2007 Author Share Posted November 1, 2007 I'd hate to be the guy that has to field test that thing.As for this invisibility stuff, its all smoke and mirrors. I've seen the Japanese invisible suit, that I can believe. But a tank, that constantly rolls loudly through grass, fields, and dirt? I just can't see how effective it will be with its footprint, noise, and questionable reliability of its current camera system. Just sounds like fluff to me. The japaneese invisibility cloak isn't a projector based technology. It's a reflector. The cloth itself works like a pliable tv and changes to fit it's background in real time. The tank technology is much simpler. you just take a picure of the background and project it onto your tanks surfaces. As for the sound and heat signatures. I don't know if that's currently as much of a concern. Let them get the kinks out of the invisibility camaflauge. That's pretty cool all by itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJWatson3 Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Am I the only one that can see the tank in the picture? Or do I just have super-vision? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 1) The idea of "put a TV screen on something, and a camera on the other side, and show whatever's behind you, in front of you", can't produce invisibility. Because of parallax. To try to make the explanation simple, without pictures, (I don't know how to draw a picture, and then post my drawing here.), let's assume that we're trying to make me invisible. In fact, let's just say we're trying to make one point on me (say, my navel), invisible. I'm going to refer to a coordinate system in which zero degrees refers to something that's directly in front of my navel. Now, in order to make my navel invisible to an observer directly in front of me, (bearing zero), my navel LED (or whatever kind of "picture tube" I'm using) needs to be the same color as whatever's at bearing 180. But, to make my navel invisible to an observer who's at bearing 45 (my front right), that same LED needs to be whatever color's at bearing 225. I'd need some kind of emitter where the same pixel is different colors depending on where it's being seen from. (Now, mirrors can do that. A mirror will "show different pictures" when seen from different directions. But that's something else.) 2) That doesn't mean that, while "invisibility" is impossible, that "darned good camouflage" can't be achieved. If all you want is a tank that changes colors so that it's roughly the same color as it's background, that's a lot easier to do. Now, for example, you don't need to completely cover every square inch of the tank. You can just cover a good part of the tank, and simply display a camouflage pattern composed of the predominant colors from behind you. (Desert camouflage works pretty well in the desert. Ditto with woodland cammo. It shouldn't be too tough to design a system where the tank (or the soldier's uniform) changes from desert to woodlands to arctic to urban (if there is such a thing) depending on where the tank is.) It won't be invisibility. But that doesn't mean it won't help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Am I the only one that can see the tank in the picture? Or do I just have super-vision? That's the tank that's behind the invisible one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d0ublestr0ker0ll Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 "it's the mirrs" :laugh: :laugh: Nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Brave Little Toaster Oven Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Could you imagine if their was a McDonalds behind the tank? :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 i remember a while back some scientists created a field that was invisible to microwaves. that was done on short notice and i think they were working on taking the same theory behind that to make waves of the visible light spectrum invisible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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