2002: Adaptive camouflage makes cars invisible
Wanna disappear? Bond's Aston Martin in 2002's "Die Another Day" has the ability, thanks to a technology called adaptive camouflage. Though the concept seems far-fetched, several research teams around the world are working on invisibility devices. Researchers in Susumu Tachi's lab at the University of Tokyo, for example, have developed a screenlike cloak that displays the scene behind the wearer on the front. The visual effect is like seeing through the person. Several U.S. teams, meanwhile, are developing materials that make objects invisible by deflecting radar, light and other waves around them like water flowing around a rock in a stream, as depicted in this image.
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