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  • Way cool! The humans have cloaked, off the port bow, Captain.

  • this could reverse the progress for seeing inside other spectrums. Maybe something for the paranormal field technicians?

  • of course he would mention star trek.haha

  • 1:07

    steve cummer!!! lmfao

    anyways this would b a huge breakthrough

  • Please!!! Do you really think if they succeeded in making an invisibilty suit they would make it available to the general public??Think of the amount of murderers and rapists out there that would just love to get there hands on them - not to mention it greatly intruding on everyones privacy. It would be strictly kept within the military and government agencies for covert black-ops.

  • Yes. Only government agents should be allowed to murder, rape, and invade our privacy.

  • Isn't there something called RPT material or something. And a cloak made of it with a camera installed in the back can render a person invisible when the filmed material is projected in the front.

  • I think some organic films can conduct or divert light along it's surface who cares if it makes things completely invisible as long as it provides a significant advantage over standard camoflage it would be acceptable.

  • Give it 10, 20 years and see if anything useful comes out, right now the ability to "cloak" a very narrow band is only practical for telecom, for any actual "cloaking" you'd have a better effect just by going out at night wearing black.

  • Yeah hmm those collors become different.

    Well looks like here is a well-known logic behind it.

  • and we didn't even get to see it work?

  • Actually the united states came up with Light bending technology for suites for the military to cloak. Theres also another way using a set of mirrors to reflech the enviroment. But light bending they use primarely cause they use it on jets.

  • Could this be used to prevent global warming?

    Since light is waves. The radiation from light

    in theory could be blocked or bent around the earth. Less heat the sun, less melting of the ice caps.

  • Scientist can also teleport atoms across great distances. Next molecules. Then DNA. Then organisms. It seems Star Trek was not just fantasy.

  • BORING

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  • as amazing as this is..... theres no point to it, it will be mostly be used for killing,murder,thieves, breaking the laws,wars, and etc.

  • this was on TV at like 2am

  • amm canada has Invisibility Cloakt army ppl it useis fiberoptics thet one pin prick of light is progakted by the opset optic so you are invisibil.

  • what?

  • I think you need to retake English. At least learn how to spell.

  • the thing is if they actually find a way to make an true invisibilty cloak everyone will want one so.....in the future is it going to be harder to find people?

  • Lol, where are you? Why can't I find you, I don't want to deal with you i'm wearing my invisibility cloak....

    Lol that would be funny.

  • forget about gas prices, world hunger, our troops getting killed, and global warming, lets invent an invisibility cloak, good job scientists, way to earn ur money

  • Well if they develop an invisibility cloak then our soldiers can use it and never get killed because the enemy can't see you.

  • BadBoy0c

    You think that every scientist works in the same exact thing? Well you're wrong, there a group that try to solve world hunger, gas prices, and all that stuff, but there are other groups that study genetics, vehicles and all that stuff. ( oh and the Japanese are also working, but the one showed around the net is fake ) Why are you here typing on youtube when you could solve the world's problems. TRY TO BE A BIT SMARTER.

  • It's not about scientists finding answers to our problems. It's about the government not funding it and just people in general. In the US people waste a lot of just about everything and most don't even attempt to recycle anything. So if you want to point fingers don't do it at them. And what, do you expect scientists to pick up after you before they can research something they're interested in?

  • All the things you mentioned are not caused by funding science they are caused by greed and corrupt governments.

  • global warmin is just an excuse for a global tax you ignorant noob, ppl like you are the problem

  • Invisibilty Cloak?! Once I get my hands on that I'm gonna have Scotty beam me right into the ladies locker room at the local all girls college.

  • Some Japanese scientist came up with this and has been working on it for a few years...Duke did not have anything to do with this

  • shows how much you know

  • jeepndesert, i could have sworn a few years back the military did just that with a bulky looking suit kinda thing, but it was not practical and very fragile. I only saw it once and never again. Kinda x-file like.

  • looks very promising, keep up the good work.

  • When it comes to science, never say never.

  • so now its at the state of active camoflage (remember, halo fans?) now to find a material dense enough to do that with higher frequencies, such as light waves....

  • 何て言いようか分からんばい。

  • Exactly what I was thinking!

  • what if you make a freconesy that absorbs all lightsand repls ultra vilot so any thing behind

    it would not show up

  • can't you broadcast opposite amplitudes from an object to cancel it out and then broadcast the information received from behind it all part of a sphere of transmitters and receivers?

  • thats not the way to go about it. I think the solution will ultimately be more subtle such as bending all the light waves around the object.

  • Camaflouge XD

    Camouflage

  • Nice work, Cummer.

  • Personally, I'll just stick to the old invisibilty cloak (I mean from the HP books, of course)

  • So when you ask your friends if you want to play hide and seek, they'll spend hours searching for you.

  • ok now only you have to do is cloak the cloaking device...

  • the chinese made a better one lol

    seriously though type in optical camaflouge

    not sure if i spelled camaflouge right

  • David Schurig blinks like he nervous as fuck or hiding something. I'm not saying this doesn't exist, rather I'm suggesting it does and perhaps the releasing of this technology from a hierarchical institution such as a university would be done in a selective manner

    but then again I'm conspiracy minded in general

    glad to see that this is being discussed whatsoever

  • People who spend a lot of time in the lab tend not to have the best social or public speaking skills.

    And in any case, it would not be up to the university to decide how or when to release their findings - it would already be in the hands of defense.

  • Great stuff.

    BTW. Duke Universtity: please support open software like Firefox instead of using Internet Explorer.

  • interesting

  • i can only be insivisble when nobodys watching.

  • how much or how much to find to make it?

  • He said he didn't know how to achieve optical invisibility...and, he's an idiot if he's serious...all you need to do is bend light around the body. The military has experimented with this concept using mirrors and was successful...

  • which would only be unidirectional and thus you'd have to stand in the perfect spot for the person to appear invisible.

  • I'm invisible right now. My, uh, my wife.. seems to think otherwise. Although, she does wish I was, time to time.

  • Did you know we can travel in time? Only problem is that the universe explodes if you do :/

  • did you know that we are traveling in time?

    the only problem is that it's going in only one direction...

  • THAT WAS HILARIOUS!!

  • It's only a matter of time before they improve the strength of the cloaking field, and tune it to visible wavelengths. The 21st century is when everything changes, and you've gotta be ready. Also, that reminds me. If you wanna see an awesome sci-fi show, watch Torchwood. It kicks sooo much ass.

  • Cool, I guess they're on the way. Theres a proffessor at Bristol intrested (or obsessed rather) in achieving invisiblity. All down to crystal structures and reflection or something similar.

  • boring... nothing new, only works at specific wavelengths... they cheated by choosing a circle to make it easy for themselves. they're using microwaves because they're trying to make millitary radar cloaks, nothing else. im sure even this piece of funding wasting junk wouldn't work if turned thru 90 degrees - bet they stole their grant from something genuinely useful, like medicine, via DoD funding, pricks

  • I don't see shit in this video but people talking. If it works then why don't they show it happening, instead of showing what it would be like through a computer detecting waves? Even Windows Media Player can have those effects. I want to SEE it HAPPENING, not some garbage colorful screen saying it happens.

  • Have you ever seen microwaves? no because we can't see them. What you saw wasnt animations, it was the real deal. They can't create small enought materials to do the same thing in visisble wavelenght right now, but it will be done in a near futur for sure.

  • Vlademir group is working n a similar materil i think using the nano rods

  • ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

    no proof

  • Nice! See Science Sensei explain the research at sciencentral dot com.

  • show the PROOF!!!

    put somethin there and i wanna see if it dissaper

    damit!!

    sure u can blah all u want but all we want is proof!

  • Do a search on the Philadelphia Experiment. That'll knock yer socks off.

  • Sorry buddy, but Philadelphia Experiment is conspiracy theory crap :-P

  • Geez, sort out the video quality, even the banner's crap quality...

  • Anyone seen mystery men?

    "I'm the invisible boy!"

    "But I can only go invisible when nobodys watching.."

    "Then how do you know that you're invisible?"

    "I can feel it!"

    So, why don't they show it going invisible in the video?

  • They do ... essentially (just watch the graphs). If a wavefront passes and object and is unchanged after, then you can't detect that the object was there normal to the oncomming wavefront (as it is the same as it would have been). Like they said, it only works at one wavelength at a time, it only looks to be 2D, and I doubt that wavelength is in the visible spectrum.

  • another exaMPLE OF AMERICAN WAY OF MANIPULATION.

    not only it doesent make the object invisible , even what i tshould make it invisible to doesent work.

    in other words its the usual "i say its midnight then believe it is althaugh its mid day"

    keep going idiotic americans sell us more ice and call it fire.

  • ...You're an idiot.

  • It does exactly what it says, with the limitations they of course. If you understand wave propagation at all, it is pretty obvious from the movie that it is working.

  • IMAGE NO GOOD

  • that guy at 00:40 was blinking an awful lot thank god these experiments don't have side effects.

  • How does this benefit the world???

  • achievement unlocked.

  • That is so cool. That looks kind of like air disturbance around a fixed plane. Very promising. Good work.

  • I think Mr Potter might have one of these. Maybee you can reverse engineer it.

  • I see no invisibility cloak! this is bullshit!

  • Wow, thats awesome

  • Wow, ur mental yeah? what an advertisement...

  • If you could tune it to multiple frequencies, such as red, green and blue, you'll then have yourself a fully-functioning cloaking device!

  • i have something to tell these smart

    ass's:

    if you cant explain something intellegent

    to normal people, then you should start

    douting wether or not youu are intellegent

    yourself

  • Why do extremely intelligent people always seem a bit odd?

  • if its real where i can buy this one

  • How do you make one again?

  • the nerd at :43 has a massive widow's peak. and yes, I am jealous of him and wish I was smart enough to be a nerd.

  • more

  • I can turn invisible, but it only works when everyone has their eyes closed. :(

  • um i dunno man but if u figure it out i got to get the hook up!

  • this stinksssssssssssssssssssssssss­

  • I would like you guys to Google "X'tal Vision", there you will have videos and everything about the japanese invisible technology already available.

  • It seems to me that you need a projector for that one.

  • Xtal vision only makes something invisible if you watch it through a camera.

  • what like a vampire? :D

  • invisible cloak

  • great

    achievment

  • I have proof that I can be invisible or cloak my whole body with light waves of Light Green and White Light. I have the pictures of proof.

  • Yeah, sure mate I got pictures of proof i am invisible, cause i not in the picture lol

  • laughing my ass off!

  • were are the pics at?

  • Just watch the video. The wavefronts at the output are nearly identical to those comming in. If it does not disturb the wave, then it is invisible (only showing 2D at one wavelength though....)

  • light IS an electromagnetic wave,

    milliking.  just different parts of one big spectrum, along with radio, infared, xrays, and ultraviolet. what works for one is theoretically applicable to the others.

  • Boots of Fleeing! Boots of Fleeing!

  • duuuuuuhh

  • his hair is totally invisible.

  • LoL

  • NERDS!!!!!!!!!!!! lol...jk

  • so what ther saying is u cant see the object from a certain direction but because ther is a invisbilty thing round it u can c the outside of the invisibilty thing so u might aswell put a bag over it and say it isnt ther

  • No. What they are saying is they have developed a shield that they can put around an object so that a certain wavelength of microwave radiation travels "around" the shield rather than hitting it and bouncing back. Viewing from that particular waveform, one can assume the object is somewhat invisible to the radiowaves

  • did u even listen to the video?

    its not invisible to sight, its invisible to electromagnetic waves

  • I hate to bust your bubble, but visible light is an electromagnetic wave, however they are talking about microwaves, which are not visible by the human eye.

  • ROFLMAO! That's funny.. best response I've ever read! Good job! Think we'd have better luck taking view 'behind' an object/person and 'projecting it in front' of same obj/prsn to make one invisible. That assumes either stationery position OR making images transfer at same rate as movement..

  • I've thought the same thing and maybe use fibre optics to bend the light.

  • How about a disco ball? After every one got invisible, they could all dance.

  • lazyhippy94 lol love ur comment!

  • so what does this mean?

    if youwant to be invisible, you're going to have to walk around with a massive cylinder of specially made copper!

  • No, it does not mean you have to wear sheets of massive copper. It means some materials can be shaped to exhibit metamaterial properties.

  • I think that David Schurig guy was trying to send a morse code message with his blinks.

  • dont think im crazy but i agree with blackheart i have said what he said before there sould be aliens out there

    and other crap like that but it is true they have done it before

  • I'm gonna make one at home.

    </sarcasm>

  • It's very cool. I can definately see this kind of thing being used by the military.

  • yeah i have always wanted to hide from microwaves!.!.

  • Me too.

  • And what we're going to do with it you ask?

    We're going to fund it with our astronomical defense(offense?) budget, and put it on all our tanks, infantry, and airplanes so we can further destroy other countries without them really knowing it....

  • agreed

  • Cool, but sadly we won't see the "invisibility cloak" in a long time. Army will propably hide it and keep the element of surprise as long as it last.

  • I think it was easier to see with the cloak.

  • hey 'look at me'

    I'm fucking invisible!

    I'm harry potter!

    Go to hell dumbasses. The government had this since 1980. They're only showing simple steps- they have the whole fucking thing. It'll be public by 2017.

  • Source?

  • man i thought this was going tto be intesting...i didnt understand a word those fools said

  • this dude david is hilarious, lol. all that damn blinking!!!

  • INVISIBLE STUFF IS A DUMB IDEA you would lose yer clothes clothes.

  • how sad the mind of the invisible man can they hear my breathing my heart racing who will I hide from when are invisible?

  • how sad the mind of the invisible man can they hear me breath my heart racing where can i go now that we are invisible

  • ...what?

  • so these guys can make invisibility cloaks but they can't manage to make video of halfway decent quality? F-

  • yea...simply just a baby step and currently they can cloak even more rays of colors. The US military, once this technology is complete, will use it to cloak units and perhaps even buildings and missiles.

  • David blunk really weird.

  • yeah. what a weirdo.

  • I have a video of a cloak that makes things completely invisible.

  • wats it called then

  • ok ive looked in your videos and i sure dont see any video that has anything to do with an invisibility cloak... stop lying...

  • Errrrr.... hello???

    Go to 1:50 - I can see the 'Invisibility Cloak' clearly. There it is plain as anything.

    Do these guys actually know what they're doing? It obviously doesn't work. Maybe they're 'baffled by science'?

  • did u actually hear what they said?

    it's only invisible to microwaves not visible light..

    they don't have machines good enough to make "cloaks" for visible light yet...

  • WELL WHAT GOOD IS THAT FOR???

  • they do have machines "good" enough to make optical invisbility, they just don't know how to do it yet

  • um asshat, they say they can only do away with one type of light color or light wave, or whatever. This thing makes microwaes invisible and as far as optical invisibility is concerned it onlyreduces shadows and visual signiture. Like the guy said it's just a baby step to say yes it can be done, eventually.

  • Do you have to call names hazonku? no. Now, let us suppose that the government has things we haven't seen yet, and that guys at Duke haven't seen either. It's happened before! Just because this Duke guy doesn't know everything doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

  • That's a logical fallacy. Argument from ignorance. I'm not calling YOU ignorant, I'm saying that your evidence for secret government invisibility cloaks is simply that "this Duke guy" doesn't know about it. There is no reason to believe there are secret invisibility cloaks owned by the government. Using your logic, I could say that the government is secretly breeding magical killer unicorns. Just because we haven't seen the magic unicorns doesn't mean they don't exists!

  • I agree. the (secret) government has always had technology 25 years ahead of what they allow us to know about. you may be interested in vids by michael tsarion at video<dot>google<dot>com. also check out "mind control and the new world order" by Al Neal.

  • Yeah. So if they work on the microwaves now, maybe x-rays and infrared rays, or visible light waves, it is all just 'one type' of rays. You seem to have only one type of typing: poor. Maybe you should work on that and maybe, you will 'fix it eventually' or something. Learn to spell and capitalize, among other things.

  • i think you don't get the point: it's only invisible for microwaves, they even explain why they cant make it for real light

  • imagine that technology being used during war to hide troops and tanks! wow!

  • that would be awesome!

  • We can spend billions of dollars developing a material to make ourselves invisible or....we could hide behind a rock.

  • very funny...and profund

  • You have to experiment and develop things to acheive new heights of technology. You're right to say that this won't be useful as it is now, but you don't know how useful the end product will be, or any spin-offs in the development will be either.

  • lol, the univers is in tune with its self, we are trying to find cool ways of screwit it up, causing us to have more fun in life :P

  • we need more nerds

  • omen.

  • Hi everyone...im a high school AP physics student and im writing a term paper on invisibility. if any of you have any tips don't hesitate to message me!! thanx

    -zooma56 :)

  • Try Tesla's Egg of Columbus

  • cool, this is not your "fake koroma keytone" cloaking. Rather interesting... i wonder what type of consumer objects would be produced once "cloaking" becomes main stream...

  • It probably won't. Once the US government saw this, they probably payed them off, or forced them to give them the technology (if they don't have it already), so it'd not fall into foreign hands, like Iran, or China... for national security reasons, of course. :p

  • Thats interesting!

  • hmmm... so it's invisible... but then again it's not invisible...kinda reminds me of the simpsons and their two headed rabbit that was born with only one head hahah they need to name their stuff a lil bit better

    go to scientific american's website and check the invisble tunnel mathematicians designed... the blueprints are for something that is actually invisible

  • Boy oh boy they're some full time nerds.

    Blinker!

  • Without full time nerds you would be living in a cage.

  • They're full-time geniuses that are helping change the future of mankind. :)

  • It's still visible at 1%

  • I think they need to invent the visibility cloak first. Then they can stydy that, note its weaknesses and then go kill it.

  • What the heck is it with the guy's blinking at 42 sec?

  • ihehiehiehiehiehihiehieih yeh his got sum blinking problem

  • I would say tourette syndrome

  • I though they already came up with the light cloak, using a synthetic material made up of small reflective particles which reflect light, cousing a destortion in the image that we see.Anything on that?