Tag: IMPERIALCOLLEGELONDON

Last spring, Imperial College London successfully demonstrated, for the first time, an effective three-dimensional invisibility cloak. The system of interwoven rods actually masked a minuscule "bump," but scientists expressed uncertainty about completely hiding larger, visible objects. Now, less than a year later, that hypothetical scenario has become a reality. The researchers have ...

We'd make a joke about hipsters and "painted-on" jeans if every other blogger hadn't done it first. So what can we say about this spray-on fabric developed by Imperial College London and Fabrican? Lycra fetishists and zentai enthusiasts will probably get a kick out of it -- depending, of course, on whether or not you can kick in it. (Badum?) [Ed. note: No.] According to Wired, the material is ...

Researchers at London's Imperial College recently received a generous grant of $8.1 million to fund the development of an invisibility suit. While various international scientists have been developing invisibility tech and filing patents on camouflaging material since World War II, the Imperial College coalition believes that these decades of work may actually soon come to fruition. The ...