Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Cool stuff






Marily Monroe on Albert Einstein (helps if you blur/relax your eyes a bit, like in stereo images)

http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2007/07/interpreting_hybrid_images.php



Invisibility Cloak using reflectin proteins from squids.

http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/invisibility-cloak-materials-made-from-reflective-self-assembling-squid-proteins/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflectin

The researchers manufactured the cloak using "metamaterials" precisely arranged in a series of concentric circles that confer specific electromagnetic properties. Metamaterials are artificial composites that can be made to interact with electromagnetic waves in ways that natural materials cannot reproduce.

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