Next Up in Fiber Nation: A “Cloak of Invisibility” Exists, but It’s Not What You Think

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What does it take to disappear? Scientists have worked on this for decades, and so-called cloaking technology is commonly used on fighter jets. But here’s where things get wild: recent advances at several universities have created flexible surfaces capable of bending light around objects. Put simply, these surfaces trick your eyes into not seeing them. It’s a scientific cloak of invisibility. It might sound like Harry Potter hocus pocus, but it’s entirely possible, maybe in the next decade, to have clothing that makes the wearer invisible. Even if there’s no such thing as magic, invisible sheep.

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In this special episode of Fiber Nation, Allison interviews aerospace engineer Scott P. Hony. In 2017 he teamed up with geneticist Jacob Ogus from Stanford University, and the two scientists began a journey that would push aerospace design to its very limits. With the help of genetically engineered marmots.

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Links for this Episode

Cloaking Technology

The Rochester Experiment

(video) The Rochester Digital Cloak: A New Age of Invisibility
(video) The Rochester Cloak

More information on CRISPR and gene hacking

Marmot DNA is an Important Scientific Tool…for Climate Change

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