Newsflash! Wacky Humans Make War Invisible!

[greygirlbeast]

So, maybe we won't need the giant space rock after all. What am I supposed to do with all these frelling Immaculate Order of the Falling Sky® telescopes?

One free Glo-Stick® IOotFS condom to the first person — male, female or otherwise — to think of a practical, non-military and non-surveillance use for invisibility that would generate enough profit to make this fiasco attractive to greedy corporate pigs.

Anyway, yeah, invisibility...

Invisibility cloak is latest amazing ‘metamaterial'

Scientists Create Cloak of Invisibility

I think I'd like to like the future to stop now, please.

Comments

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

Surprise parties?

[laudre.livejournal.com]

My wife and I were discussing this this afternoon, after I told her about it. We were thinking of novelty makeup and clothing, actually. I don't know if that's "practical," but it'd certainly be profitable.

[headhouse.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind having one, just to be able to get away from people for a while, even if it is only a perceptual "away" and not a physical one. I'm probably not the only one, either. Instant privacy.

[headhouse.livejournal.com]

Oooo, yeah, architectual uses too, like wolven, below, started on. Though you'd have to leave the doors uncovered, or nobody'd be able to find their way inside any of the buildings.

[nathan-long.livejournal.com]

Sunblock?

[oakthorne.livejournal.com]

I have to admit, I found the invisibility (whether to light or microwaves) less interesting than the throwaway bit at the end there, that touches on its potential uses against seismic or sonic energy. Fascinating stuff, there.

Joe

[thingunderthest.livejournal.com]

Does "Girls gone Showering!" count as surveillance?

[wolven.livejournal.com]

We coudl coat cell-towers in the shit and not have to see them.

[tagplazen.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the Japanese (http://projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/images/oc-okugai3.mpg) ones from a while ago?

[stardustgirl.livejournal.com]

Tossing one over the ugly house next door would be nice.

[stsisyphus.livejournal.com]

One free Glo-Stick® IOotFS condom to the first person — male, female or otherwise — to think of a practical, non-military and non-surveillance use for invisibility that would generate enough profit to make this fiasco attractive to greedy corporate pigs.

Man, that's easy. Marketing! Imagine, you're strolling around outside (okay, maybe not you, but someone) along outside when a perfumed voice whispers:

"oooh. Chicken McRiblet Shake...mmm. I'm loving it.™"

Your companion marvels at your confused expression. "What?" they ask.

"I think God just told me to go to McDonald's..."

[humglum.livejournal.com]

"oooh. Chicken McRiblet Shake...mmm. I'm loving it.™"

ugh.
That is soooo nasty.

[wishlish.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo! Cloak of Invisibility! Women's locker room, here I come!

(Oh come on, like I was the ONLY one thinking it...)

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[stsisyphus.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo! Cloak of Invisibility! Women's locker room, here I come!

(Oh come on, like I was the ONLY one thinking it...)

Actually, I'm wondering about horny senators in the locker room, they'll get the tech long before we will.

[lunablack.livejournal.com]

Cosmetic - resculpt your shape by making fat rolls invisible. :)

(although I do like the surprise parties idea)

and on another take, gosh, wouldn't that be a whole new sex thing to explore...not detachable bits, but invisible ones.

And hey, you could go swimsuit free on the beach with your naughty bits all x-ed out for the puritianical (or aesthetically aware, for many cases).