UM Engineering develops "cloaking spray paint"
SIAP, I did a search and did not find anything on this.
A cloaking paint developed by Michigan Engineers sprays on clear and dries invisible. Once dry, it guides light around an object, causing it to become transparent.
As nanotechnology blurs the line between science and science fiction, Christoph Ellison has developed a paint that guides rays of light around an object. Still in development, the distortions allow the outline of the object to be seen, preventing true invisibility.
Wow, just........wow.
Could explain Channing Stribling's "fade out" plays? /s
Totally fooled - I thought that was one of the coolest and scariest things that I have seen. Science fiction is becoming a reality. Thank goodness it's not real.
I will say that I believed it until I saw the objects dangling, at which point I thought it looked like CGI. I still thought it was possibly believable until they put it on their hands and started talking about it keeping him up at night.
I would have recognized it as an April Fools joke sooner had this type of technology not been talked about in Popular Science about 10 years ago.
I fear that I've made a fool of myself on this. I thought this was amazing and proceeded to email it to most of my family. I grew up in a Star Trek household, so I figured they'd love it just as much as I did. Now I'll have to play it off like a late April Fools joke just as it was done to me.
(Offstage sounds of rummaging, stuff falling on floor, "Ow!", muttered curses.)
[Enter man]
Man: Honey, have you seen my can of cloaking spray paint?
Wife: Of course not.
/rimshot
It worked beautifully because you posted it today and not April 1st. I actually showed my husband who saw right through it and I called him a "non-believer." Good thing I'm secure with my intelligence.
So this wasn't Gallon's trick. Would be cool to make Spike invisible also. Just watch the ball bounce as he dribbles the air out of it.