Invisible Tanks

[Ford Jellymoulds]

British defense researchers have invented an invisible tank here is 50-50 photo of the tank showing it part invisible.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,306678,00.html

[Edstock]

This is just a guess, but the next step is a vehicle where the exterior body panels are coated with OLED's. Organic Light Emitting Diodes. The UK is the center of OLED tech. OLED's are starting to appear in consumer products like phones.

 

 

Because OLEDs emit their own light, the panel can be thin, flexible and relatively tough, and, most important, cheaply replaced.

 

Put OLED panels on a Leopard, and it will be able to change its spots . . .

 

Here's a use of OLEDs for a keyboard:

 

 

http://ces.gearlive.com/cesblog/article/op...board_07131058/

 

I want one. Check out the Quake config — YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/

 

It seems you can buy one, for approx. 462.27 US$

Edited December 8, 2007 by Edstock

[bbf2530]

British defense researchers have invented an invisible tank here is 50-50 photo of the tank showing it part invisible.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,306678,00.html

 

Hi all. :D Actually, if you read the caption under the photo, it is clear that the photo is a fake which has been altered.

 

The caption reads, "What the British cloaking device might look like if it were applied to an Israeli tank."

 

In other words, the photo is just a "representation" of what it might look like if they put the device on a tank. There was no "cloaking device" on the tank in the picture. It is a digitally altered photograph.

 

Essentially, to make the story more interesting, Fox News needed a picture, so they digitally altered a file photo of an Isreali tank (they didn't even take the time to find a photo of a British tank , when it is a story about British military experiments). The media at its best!

 

Nice idea though. Idea has been around for some time. US Military has also had the same type of program going for years. Essentially projecting the background onto the surface of something. Tough to work out the (innumerable) kinks though. A cloak of invisibility.

 

Ninja tanks! :ninja:

 

Good luck! :beerchug:

Edited December 8, 2007 by bbf2530

[rmc523]

Hi all. :D Actually, if you read the caption under the photo, it is clear that the photo is a fake which has been altered.

 

The caption reads, "What the British cloaking device might look like if it were applied to an Israeli tank."

 

In other words, the photo is just a "representation" of what it might look like if they put the device on a tank. There was no "cloaking device" on the tank in the picture. It is a digitally altered photograph.

 

Essentially, to make the story more interesting, Fox News needed a picture, so they digitally altered a file photo of an Isreali tank (they didn't even take the time to find a photo of a British tank , when it is a story about British military experiments). The media at its best!

 

Nice idea though. Idea has been around for some time. US Military has also had the same type of program going for years. Essentially projecting the background onto the surface of something. Tough to work out the (innumerable) kinks though. A cloak of invisibility.

 

Ninja tanks! :ninja:

 

Good luck! :beerchug:

 

Interesting....It's like Pierce Brosnan/James Bond's Aston Martin Vanish in Die Another Day

[Hemiman]

Nice idea though. Idea has been around for some time. US Military has also had the same type of program going for years.

 

 

At least since WWII. They had a B-24 covered with little lights. It would approximate the brightness of the surrounding sky. While not invisible, it did make the plane much harder to see at a distance.

[kevinb120]

Its a good thing modern anti-tank weapons don't rely on visual information

 

It is funny they pulled a file shot of a Merkava instead of a Challenger. Journalists these days don't venture far from the laptop for reporting these days.

Edited December 21, 2007 by kevinb120

[DSenstad]

If you read the article you will find a lick to a raincoat made of the stuff. From there you can find a cloak video made of the similiar material. I think bank robbers just found a new nylon stocking. Just imagine when the cops ask "What were they wearing"?

 

"Well.... I don't really know" :shrug:

[kevinb120]

How come I keep thinking of robot-boy in Grandmas Boy... 'how can he see me?'