This girl had an amazing idea. I was thinking of Jackson’s post about invisibility cloaks perhaps being on the shelf in just months…and then I came across this.
Sara Watson, studying drawing in England at the University of Central Lancashire, took three weeks to make this old Skoda invisible.
Essentially, she was given the car by an old junk yard. It was up for recycling anyhow. She painted the car so that it would blend in with its surroundings (the parking lot at her school). Sara says, “I was experimenting with the whole concept of illusion but needed something a bit more physical to make a real impact.”
Seriously? That is radtadstic. I can’t wait for the moment when it’s someone’s real car and they can’t find it in a parking lot!
It seems like our technological capabilities are increasing at an incredible rate these days.
Last week, SuperForester Casey sent me word about the development of the world’s fastest film camera, which uses a laser beam to capture six million frames a second.
To put this in perspective, the slowest slo-mo footage I’ve ever seen was approximately 1000 frames per second. Looked a little something like this:
Now, imagine slowing this down 60,000 times more. This camera will allow us to record and study events that we could only theorize before. Cells dividing. Atoms splitting. It’s amazing. If I could only wrap my head around how the darn thing works!
Next up, invisibility cloaks could be on shelves soon! Two teams, one at Cornell lead by Professor Michal Lipson, and one at Cal Berkeley lead by Professor Xiang Zhang, have managed to create a material that bends light around itself, making it functionally “unseeable” or, to use the vernacular, invisible.
Produce enough material with a great enough light bending capability, and you could theoretically, make an object invisible to human eyes.
Finally on our list of technology that thrills come the announcement by the cleverly named company OriginOil that they’ve cracked single step extraction of algae. Translation: grow a bunch of algae in a tank and in one easy step, it separates itself into water, biomass, and oil. The oil and biomass can immediately be used to make fuel, jet fuel, plastics, fertilizers, everything we currently rely on fossil fuels for. And the water can be reused to grow more algae. Win!
If only it were so easy… Thanks for teasing me, gmail.
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