3D thermal invisibility cloak hides objects from infrared cameras

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorResearchers have built a three-dimensional cloak that hides objects from infrared cameras, ScienceDaily reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHiding from heat cameras. Right. So who exactly is this for, then?

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt doesn't block heat. It guides it around the object, so the camera sees it flow past, from virtually any direction.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorEarlier cloaks only worked in two dimensions, or when the heat came from one side. This one handles all sides, which is genuinely clever.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's a three-D-printed aluminum lattice filled with a rubber-like material that barely conducts heat. Published in Nature Communications.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd the test subject was an apple-shaped core inside a pear-shaped shell. Fruit, Hank.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAlso human-head shapes. It is a rigid, shape-specific lab prototype, and it works inside a controlled solid environment, according to Designboom.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorShape-specific. So the cloak hides the one thing it was built for, in the one room built for it. Brilliant.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the most hidden object in the world is a pear that can't leave the lab.