{"id":80440,"date":"2018-07-07T07:42:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T14:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/new-cloaking-technique-lets-light-pass-right-on-through"},"modified":"2018-07-07T07:42:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T14:42:27","slug":"new-cloaking-technique-lets-light-pass-right-on-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/new-cloaking-technique-lets-light-pass-right-on-through","title":{"rendered":"New cloaking technique lets light pass right on through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-cloaking-technique-lets-light-pass-right-on-through.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The concept of an <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/metamaterials-wide-spectrum-optical-invisibility-cloak-stanford\/27813\/\" target=\"_blank\">invisibility cloak<\/a> sounds like pure science fiction, but hiding something from view is theoretically possible, and in some very-controlled cases it\u2019s experimentally possible too. Now, researchers have developed a new device that works in a completely different way to existing cloaking technology, neatly sidestepping some past issues and potentially helping to hide everyday objects under everyday conditions.<\/p>\n<p>We see objects because light bounces off them in a particular way before landing on your retinas, and they get their colors by reflecting more light of that particular color. The basic concept of <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/invisibility-cloak-plastic-3d-printed\/27433\/\" target=\"_blank\">cloaking<\/a> objects involves finding ways to disrupt that process and build them into devices or metamaterials.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/spectral-cloaking-invisibility\/55271\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/spectral-cloaking-invisibility\/55271\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of an invisibility cloak sounds like pure science fiction, but hiding something from view is theoretically possible, and in some very-controlled cases it\u2019s experimentally possible too. Now, researchers have developed a new device that works in a completely different way to existing cloaking technology, neatly sidestepping some past issues and potentially helping to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}