How To See Through an Invisibility Cloak

AMESN writes "Ways to bend light around objects and render them invisible are becoming a major field of scientific study and gaining ground. While no actual invisibility cloak exists yet, researchers are also theorizing on how to beat the perfect cloak."

Re:The Possibilities

[Mikkeles]

The kind I want to go out with. WooHoo; particle launcher!

How to see through an invisibility cloak?

[JKDguy82]

turn it on?

Re:The Possibilities

[unitron]

In that scenario aren't you supplying the particle launcher yourself?

Re:The easy solution, from the article

[sopssa]

But what about when teleporting becomes common use technology? The invisibility cloak would have a teleportation field on top of it. The rock would be just teleported back to the person, and it could have a nifty effect in the invisibility drawing to smooth the effect (ie., instead of just teleporting, the stone would travel at a slightly increased, but still not noticeable speed for a moment)

Re:The Possibilities

[Anonymous Coward]

If those particles are being launched at you, you might want to consider a different girl.

Re:How to see through an invisibility cloak?

[meow27]

or maybe, just look through it?

Re:Simple.

[sopssa]

I don't know about you, but I don't usually walk around in city with a flamethrower on.

Re:Bahh... the Federation and Dominion figured it

[copponex]

Thanks, buddy. I suddenly feel much better about myself.

It's rather easy...

[Antiocheian]

You can drink a blessed potion of see invisible or eat an invisible stalker's corpse while invisible.

NMP Field

[Anonymous Coward]

I figure I could start research on how to overcome an NMP field, but I figure it really isn't my concern.

Re:rain

[thelamecamel]

How would it show movement? AFAIK the cloak should be able to move around and this movement shouldn't be visible to you.

Or do you mean they won't be able to make a flexible cloaking ninja suit that keeps cloaking the ninja as they walk, despite the suit bending? The solution to that, of course, is to roll around inside a giant hamster ball/zorb cloaking device! Watch out... i'll sneak up on you and ROLL YOU TO DEATH.

Re:How about a $5 solution?

[John Hasler]

> In any case, a well placed pebble should also work as it would bounce off in
> a very obvious way.

Better yet, a well-placed bullet. Just spray bullets in all directions at all times.

The solution

[RudeIota]

Everyone knows firing short, repeated bursts of tachyons between a 3 dimensional grid made up of Federation star ships is the most effective way to detect invisible, cloaked objects.

well...

[thaddeusthudpucker]

You could just get a magical eye like Mad-Eye Moody....

Re:well...

[ryzvonusef]

Moody had a Byakugan?