A jacket that will make you invisible

[BWF89]

When I went to my first period class today this guy from some university in Pittsburgh came in and was telling us about all the futuristic technonogies they had in movies 30 years ago were actually becoming a reality today. One that interested me was this "invisible suit" he was telling me about. It is a skintight suit worn and the whole outside of it is covered with fiber optics. It uses miniature cameras to take real time video of whatever is on the back of your suit and broadcasts it to the front of the suit.

He went on to say that he has one of his lab assistants put on the suit and walked around a classroom full of studnts at some other university for awhile with the suit on and see if they could see where she was. Most of the time they could tell but sometimes they had no idea where she was. She sometimes snuck up on students and tapped their shoulders and really freaked them out.

So I did a Google image search and found the same exact picture the guy showed us:

http://www.mentalbay.com/inrobovent4inrobo.shtml

[bored2k]

I saw one of those in the year 1998. I remember well. It was the intro video For MetalGearSolid .. I saw it again on 2001 in MetalGearSolid: Sons of Liberty's intro. That's how much I believe we are close to achieving such thing.

[darkoptix]

I saw that in Ghost in the Shell. So, you were there? How real looking was this?

[totalshredder]

I've read about this before. It's supposedly only good if you're standing still or moving very slowly. It's so cool that it's starting to happen though :)

Luke

[N'Jal]

How many people are gona buy one and pretend that they are predator?

[bored2k]

How many people are gona buy one and pretend that they are predator?
How about going to L.A. and in the middle of a Schwarzzanegger speech go up to him and say "I'm back beyotch".

[smoon]

I recently found some Videos showing this technology: http://projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/oc.html The most impressing one is the oc-wired (http://projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/images/oc-wired.mpg) video, IMHO.

[Ubunted]

That is insanely cool. I would be jumping all over that if I worked in the Pentagon.

[bored2k]

That is insanely cool. I would be jumping all over that if I worked in the Pentagon.
And just how do you think they stopped those insane pilots that were heading at for the White House 2 weeks ago ? I bet these guys had a stealthed F-16 on each side waiting for the "Push the Red button" command./

[Ubunted]

Well I meant as uniforms for soldiers but that works too.

[Stormy Eyes]

I'd rather see anti-kinetic armor: armor that disperses kinetic energy from a blow, a knife-thrust, or a gunshot. That would be some serious cool stuff.

[bored2k]

I'd rather see anti-kinetic armor: armor that disperses kinetic energy from a blow, a knife-thrust, or a gunshot. That would be some serious cool stuff.
Ok... away from those matrix films..

It would rock tho..

[Stormy Eyes]

Ok... away from those matrix films..

It would rock tho..

They made sequels to The Matrix?

[Sam]

When I went to my first period class today this guy from some university in Pittsburgh came in and was telling us about all the futuristic technonogies they had in movies 30 years ago were actually becoming a reality today. One that interested me was this "invisible suit" he was telling me about. It is a skintight suit worn and the whole outside of it is covered with fiber optics. It uses miniature cameras to take real time video of whatever is on the back of your suit and broadcasts it to the front of the suit.

He went on to say that he has one of his lab assistants put on the suit and walked around a classroom full of studnts at some other university for awhile with the suit on and see if they could see where she was. Most of the time they could tell but sometimes they had no idea where she was. She sometimes snuck up on students and tapped their shoulders and really freaked them out.

So I did a Google image search and found the same exact picture the guy showed us:

http://www.mentalbay.com/inrobovent4inrobo.shtml
There are movies of this here (http://projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/oc.html) ! And a pdf (http://projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/Brochure-e.pdf) explaining how it works.

[bored2k]

They made sequels to The Matrix?
Actually no. They made stretched out crap ones.
http://www.imdb.com/find?q=matrix;tt=on;nm=on;mx=20