SKIRMISHER

Three men appear through the body of Tokyo University graduate student Kazutoshi Obana during a 2003 demonstration of optical camouflage technology.
link
{Intriguing: the jaw-dropping technology of invisibility}

The image below is not a photo — it’s a computer-generated imagery produced in real time, made from a demo of what AMD’s “Cinema 2.0″ can do in the very near future.

AMD’s new effort, “Cinema 2.0,” promises to bring photorealistic graphics that blend the visual fidelity found only in the most recent of Hollywood movies [...]

Remember Metamaterials, which were supposedly being used in creating a completely non-bullshit “invisibility cloak”?
Scientists working on it are apparently achieving something:
Researchers have demonstrated for the first time they were able to cloak three-dimensional objects using artificially engineered materials that redirect light around the objects.
Previously, they only have been able to cloak very thin two-dimensional objects.
The [...]

New light sensor technology that almost mimicks the human retina just knocking on our door:
One of the disadvantages of modern photo cameras is the flat image sensor that converts light into electric signals. Because of its shape, optics must make up for various aberrations that come to light (excuse the pun). Now scientists at Northwestern [...]

The Large Hadron Collider, or simply called “Hell,” is set to begin firing its beam tests within this week. Alright, it’s probably silly to think it is actually going to make a planet-destroying black hole, into which Earth would go and fuck itself. But if it would, imagine the drama and those naughty doomsday prophets [...]

From an IBM slide presentation from 1975, which outlines how computing will eventually evolve.

The complete set here.

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Applied Materials Research have developed a simulation program that calculates the internal structure and density distribution of bone material and, from that, the scientists were able to derive the material structure for other components….
This involves coating a surface with wafer-thin layers of special metal powder. A [...]

University of Sydney scientists say they have developed a new technology that could speed up the internet - and not cost users an extra cent.
Described as “a small scratch on a piece of glass”, the university’s photonic integrated circuit boosts the performance of traditional optic fibres, Professor Ben Eggleton said.
“This circuit uses the ’scratch’ as [...]

This “Anaconda” produces electricity as passing waves squeeze it.

The next wave in health care may include a brigade of medical nanobots, devices tiny enough to ride the flow of blood through the body’s arteries to a problem area. The bots might arrive at a clot, for example, and then using an internal power system, obliterate the clot with a precisely targeted drug or [...]