Bloody typical...

[Steffen]

... the day I commit $1000+ on a new lens they invent the superlens!

http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10816.html

(well, sort of)

Cheers
Steffen.

[Alpha_7]

Thats some crazy stuff, I like this quote.

It may also lead to further breakthroughs in "invisibility cloaks" which could hide objects from the human eye.

[Yi-P]

Invisibility will never be an impossibility in the future

[Killakoala]

Douglas Adams first 'prophesied' the idea in his books, Hitch Hikers et al, and even created the name for it. It's called SEP, or more accurately known as Somebody Else's Problem.

Basically it works like this. A field is created around an object and even though the object is physically in existence, the eyes do not register it when looked upon directly. Sometimes it is possible to catch a glimpse of it through the corner of the eye, but when looked at directly, it is not there. This is because the existence of the object is Somebody Else's Problem.

Sometimes the simple things in life are often the simplest.

Anyway, i think this is more important right now, especially this time of year.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... ritis.html

[Steffen]

Anyway, i think this is more important right now, especially this time of year.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... ritis.html

As if we hadn't always known...

However, according to the article:

Andrej Tarkowski at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and colleagues injected male mice with a type of collagen to induce rheumatoid arthritis...

That is quite amazing, given that he died 20 years ago, not before completing notable movies like The Mirror, Ivan's Childhood, and Solaris, though...

Cheers
Steffen.