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Cloaked

A real live invisibility cloak, developed by a Professor in Tokyo. It's straightforward enough - cameras on the front and back of the suit display the image on the opposite side, such that it appears you are seeing through the cloak/person directly. And I suppose you are, via the cameras. But this cloaking suit wouldn't fool anyone, not yet.

Theoretically, invisibility would require only one of the following thee tricks: Allow photons to pass through the object to be invisible (difficult, what this cloak attempts), OR, you don't allow photons to bounce back in a certain direction (this is the basis of stealth radar technology), though this would never be fully "invisible". Or, you absorb all photons and don't let any go by, but then the object in question would be black - very black. And unless it was night, hardly "invisible".

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