D’oh: simulation of infrared radiation from a heat source being blocked by an object shaped like the head of Homer Simpson (left). The image on the right shows how the proposed cloaking device would ...

Now, researchers have crafted a material that adapts its properties so that its infrared appearance is either hotter or colder than the object it encloses. In other words, hot objects appear cold ...

Tanks could soon get night time invisibility thanks to a cloaking device that masks their infrared signature. Developed by BAE Systems, the Adaptiv technology allows vehicles to mimic the ...

cloaking in the visible has been the aim. Having reached the near-infrared, we might be there soon. Transparent optical materials, such as glass or water, distort the perception of space ...

The heat masking technology can make a tank look like a car to a heat 'scope Tanks could soon get night time invisibility thanks to a cloaking device that masks their infrared signature.

BAE Systems’s Adaptiv technology enables objects as big as tanks to completely vanish from view–when seen at night with an infrared sensor, admittedly, but that’s still a major advantage.

It can also be adopted for ranges other than the optical spectral ranges, including the infrared and the microwave. We note that the achievable invisibility with the proposed cloak is not perfect ...

H. G. Wells's "The Invisible Man" brought the idea of invisibility to the mainstream over a century ago. Not long after, the fascination with invisibility became a hot trope in fantasy and sci-fi ...

The illustration shows the glass cloak designed to hide a metal cylinder of 15 micrometers in diameter. Image credit: Semouchkina, et al. Michigan and Pennsylvania researchers are going to make an ...

Its developers would not discuss exactly how the panels are heated and cooled. Field trials of the thermal cloaking system showed that it made a tank resemble background scenery best from a ...

Researchers at Michigan Technological University have experimented with cloaking objects from microwave and infrared frequency waves using shells of nonconductive materials such as ceramics and ...