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Physicists Devise Magnetic Shield 90

Posted by samzenpus
from the leave-your-emp-gun-at-home dept.
sciencehabit writes "The sneaky science of 'cloaking' just keeps getting richer. Physicists and engineers had already demonstrated rudimentary invisibility cloaks that can hide objects from light, sound, and water waves. Now, they've devised an 'antimagnet' cloak that can shield an object from a constant magnetic field without disturbing that field. If realized, such a cloak could have medical applications, researchers say."
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  • Re:Immediate Military Applications (Score:4, Interesting)

    by izomiac (815208) on Thursday September 22, 2011 @10:38PM (#37487800) Homepage
    Landmines. Right now, they use a bare minimum of metal to evade metal detectors, so everything is mechanical. This would allow a processor and such to be in the mine so you could have it not detonate on friendlies, and deactivate itself/start beeping after a couple years. Heck, you could even have the mines networked so the whole field detonates simultaneously when it detects large number of troops are half-way across. I'm not sure if it's in the best interest of humanity to revisit this technology, but at least some of their tactical and humanitarian problems can be addressed.

You know, the difference between this company and the Titanic is that the Titanic had paying customers.

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