Glass Invisibility Cloak Shields Infrared

An anonymous reader writes with the latest advance in the quest for a cloak of invisibility (Michigan Tech University's press release). We've been following this research as it develops; here are stories from each of the last four years. "Invisibility cloaks are slowly working their way up to shorter wavelengths — starting at millimeter-long microwaves and working their way to the nanometer wavelengths of visible light. EETimes says we are about half way there — micrometer wavelengths — in this story about using chalcogenide glass to create invisibility cloaks in the infrared. Quoting: 'Invisibility cloaks cast in chalcogenide glass can render objects invisible to infrared frequencies of light, according to researchers at Michigan Technological University... Most other demonstrations of invisibility cloaks have used metamaterials composed of free-space split-ring resonators that were constructed from metal printed-circuit board traces surrounded by traditional dielectric material. The Michigan Tech researchers... claim that by substituting nonmetallic glass resonators made from chalcogenide glass, infrared cloaks are possible too...'"

Goodness me!

[Fluffeh]

I so totally didn't see this story coming this morning...

I can see the headline...

[tiedyejeremy]

but can't see the story. What gives?

Re:Sigh, no

[drew30319]

You're right but Marketing shot down the name "fundamentally flawed."

Didn't test well.

Headline parsing

[tux0r]

Glass Invisibility Cloak Shields Infrared

You know you've been coding too much when the brain reads that as "noun noun noun noun noun" and throws a parse error expecting a verb...

Re:Goodness me!

[Anonymous Coward]

this friends is why Funny mods don't contribute to a user's positive karma. almost none of them display any real wit and are generally not very funny. this post here is in the same ballpark as the puns that news anchors constantly use i.e. "today we have *shocking* news about your electricity prices". i guess the viewer is supposed to say "ha-ha, it's about electricity and he said shocking, how amazingly clever and original and humorous!" those viewers are the same people who mod up posts like the parent post. "ha-ha, it's about a cloak and cloaks make things invisible so he didn't see this story coming, how amazingly clever and original and humorous!" except that it wasn't.

on the plus side, at least it wasn't a ten thousandth iteration of a tired old Slashdot meme. though lame jokes like this getting modded to +5 Funny is a Slashdot meme in and of itself.

Re:Headline parsing

[Anonymous Coward]

Glass Invisibility Cloak Shields Infrared

You know you've been coding too much when the brain reads that as "noun noun noun noun noun" and throws a parse error expecting a verb...

You know you've been reading too much Lolcats when you first read that response as "nom nom nom nom nom"

Re:Goodness me!

[tenex]

An invisibility cloak eh... right then; I'll believe it when I see it.

Re:Headline parsing

[suomynonAyletamitlU]

Or not to shield, that is the question

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
the slings and arrows of outrageous fortunes
or take arms against a sea of photons
and by opposing, evade them?