Invisibility has been a staple of science fiction and stories about magic for ages and now, a Canadian company has made it possible with a paper-thin and really "magical" special material.
A game-changing "Quantum Stealth" (Light Bending Material), otherwise known as the Invisibility Cloak, that hides or makes invisible, anything behind it has been patented by HyperStealth Biotechnology Corporation. This company is a Canadian manufacturer of military camouflage uniforms based in Maple Ridge, British Columbia.
What's incredible about this Quantum Stealth material is that it doesn't need a power source or any other equipment. Just place this paper-thin material over or in front of an object and the object disappears from visual view.
Quantum Stealth works by bending the light around an object to make it seemingly disappear. What an observer sees is the background and not the person or thing hidden behind Quantum Stealth.
Quantum Stealth not only makes an object or person invisible visually or to the visual light spectrum. It also prevents the detection of an object by ultraviolet, infrared, shortwave infrared light and thermal spectrum detectors. These qualities have obvious applications as military camouflage.
HyperStealth CEO and president Guy Cramer said these qualities make the Quantum Stealth material a true "broadband invisibility cloak."
Cramer said the invisibility cloak requires no power source. The material is paper-thin and inexpensive. It can hide a person, a vehicle, a ship, aircraft, spacecraft and even buildings.
Many more configurations of the Quantum Stealth material are possible. The patent lists 13 versions of the material.
The company said one piece of Quantum Stealth "works in any environment, in any season at any time of the day or night, something no other camouflage is capable of."
A video of this invisibility cloak can be viewed here.
Originally designed for military use, this technology has been developed for years by HyperStealth Biotechnology. The company also refers to the invisibility material as a "tactical cloak."
HyperStealth also patented three other inventions alongside Quantum Stealth. One was for a new "Solar Panel Amplifier" that provides more than triple the output of an equal thin film control panel and almost triple that of a monocrystalline panel.
A second was for a "Display System" capable of producing holographic-like images with the addition of a powered projector. And the third was for Laser Scattering, Deviation & Manipulation that allows for ultra-high resolution at much longer distances.
