{"id":15538,"date":"2019-10-22T10:28:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T09:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=15538"},"modified":"2019-10-22T10:28:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T09:28:45","slug":"a-canadian-company-has-created-an-invisibility-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/a-canadian-company-has-created-an-invisibility-shield\/","title":{"rendered":"A Canadian Company Has Created An Invisibility Shield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s not quite the invisibility cloak from Harry Potter, but we&#8217;re getting there.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The material, dubbed Quantum Stealth, has been developed by Hyperstealth which is a &#8220;Canadian camouflage design company&#8221;. The &#8220;invisible&#8221; material is as thin as paper, inexpensive, and requires no power source. While it doesn\u2019t work quite as well as the magical cloak I described, it does do a pretty good job of concealing objects.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.iflscience.com\/images\/1008a618-5866-5474-8d8c-591aa2cbe232\/content-1571319180-giphy.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A GIF showing how the material works.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The way it works, is the material can bend light in a way that means only things very close or very far away can be seen. So an object or person placed behind it, at a certain distance, will become invisible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The material has quite the broadband capability and is able to bend light from mid- and near-ultraviolet to the infrared. Given the lower resolution of cameras that work outside the visible light spectrum, the effect becomes a lot more pronounced and remarkable when the material is viewed through them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The technology started being developed by Hyperstealth&#8217;s Guy Cramer in 2010, and since then he\u2019s been working with military organisations to develop the material.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the promotional video made by the company below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VFp1KY5KqcI\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VFp1KY5KqcI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not quite the invisibility cloak from Harry Potter, but we&#8217;re getting there. The material, dubbed Quantum Stealth, has been developed by Hyperstealth which is a &#8220;Canadian camouflage design company&#8221;. The &#8220;invisible&#8221; material is as thin as paper, inexpensive, and requires no power source. While it doesn\u2019t work quite as well as the magical cloak&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":15539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[572,1494,71,256,1610,1295],"class_list":["post-15538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worldwide-news","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-news","tag-science","tag-science-news","tag-worldwide-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15541,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15538\/revisions\/15541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}