http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 21st 2007 10:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 22nd 2007 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/project-grizzly-inventor-crafts-real-world-halo-suit-for-militar/]]>Jun 22nd 2007 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 21st 2007 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/
I want Master Chief on our side when sh*t goes down.]]>Jun 21st 2007 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 21st 2007 10:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 21st 2007 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/
This area of research was bound to receive an earnest look and funding at some point. Just so happens that it's happening now. Can't wait to see what they discover and develop over the next 10 years.]]>Jun 22nd 2007 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 21st 2007 10:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/
That's exactly what I was thinking.]]>Jun 21st 2007 10:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 21st 2007 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 21st 2007 11:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/
I don't know, but it sounds to me like this might take a bit more than 15 bills.

lol, it's just a bit outlandish a suggestion. Unless they already have a solid lead on some antimatter to play with, it's like saying, "Hey, having a unicorn would be sweet! Let's make one."]]>Jun 21st 2007 11:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/
There is absolutely NO POSSIBLE WAY with current technology to create an invisible shield large enough to hide a man without having tremendous, obvious imperfections in it. Especially the part about making it shoot-through - able.

Sounds like someone is just handing out a large amount of money without realistic goals.

The best possible way to accomplish a feat like this is with NANOPARTICLES. No you wouldn't be invisible, but you'd be damn near invincible to any caliber smaller than .50.

Nanoparticles have a tensile strength much higher than steel - able to reflect bullets like pebbles.

Invisibility would require you changing gravity around you to disperse light waves like the Predator. There really is no other possible way to do it. That kind of technology is gonna be WAY MORE THAN $15 Million. Try $1500 Million and about 50 - 100 years of development.]]>Jun 22nd 2007 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/
I don't think the government would start on this if
it didn't think it would get any thing out of it.
You ever think that by shooting for Pluto we might
get to Mars? Nay-sayers never go any where...

Think of this as the Christopher Columbus of physics.
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I'd rather see our money going for NANOPARTICLE BULLET PROOF ARMOR for our SOLDIERS.

Nanoparticles can be made harder than steel when a bullet impact releases an electrical impulse rendering the troop impervious to small arms.

I'd like to see the faces on the insurgents and terrorists when one of our troops runs through a hail of AK-47 fire and CHAINSAWS THEM IN HALF.]]>Jun 21st 2007 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 22nd 2007 12:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/
I remember reading an interview with the former head of the CIA in Popular Science a couple years back where he said, "If you've seen it on Star Trek, we're 20 years past it." That's a pretty bold statement, and pretty exciting/scary to think about. ]]>Jun 22nd 2007 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/
/obscure?
//probably not.
///FARK slashies FTW!]]>Jun 21st 2007 11:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/

Figured I'd enhance the article a bit.]]>Jun 21st 2007 11:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 22nd 2007 12:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Dune books = Good.
Dune movie = Bad.]]>Jun 22nd 2007 5:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/
The movie just sucks. Period. I love Dune (I've read each book, including Hunters of Dune and the prequels, at least 3 times) but in the middle of the movie, I stood up and shut it off. Bad bad bad.

Besides, it got a 6.4 on IMDB. IMDB is normally right-on with it's ratings.]]>Jun 22nd 2007 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/
And yeah, shields were HAZARDOUS IN DUNE! Lol if you had a shield on while you were on the sands its HELLO MAD WORM, BYE BYE YOU =). That one-way invisibility wouldn't have done anything for a sand worm =D.

Too bad we don't have sand worms here =/.]]>Jun 21st 2007 11:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 21st 2007 11:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 21st 2007 11:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 22nd 2007 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/
DARPA only tackles problems that are "DARPA hard", meaning on the edge of impossibility. They're the ones responsible for the backbone of the Internet (not Al Gore and not the WWW, that was Sir Tim) and, most recently, of planes that are going to be able to criss-cross the globe in fractions of the time currently available. The last two technologies, at the time of their inception, seemed as ludicrous as this now, but if they're investing in it...there's a good chance it'll be made.

Although our tax dollars are important, given the key factors (a government agency with an absolutely astounding record for development, a relatively small budget and the possibility for thousands of American's lives saved), I'd be happy to know my money was headed here. ]]>Jun 21st 2007 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 21st 2007 11:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/
However, it would be undeniably cool if it could be developed, but rather than dreaming, these people should keep their feet on the ground and play Halo instead..]]>Jun 22nd 2007 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/
IT AINT GONNA HAPPEN NO TIME SOON.]]>Jun 22nd 2007 12:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 22nd 2007 12:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 22nd 2007 12:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 22nd 2007 12:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/
At any rate if we can get this, we'll at least have a fighting chance when the aliens attack. :-P]]>Jun 22nd 2007 1:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 22nd 2007 2:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/ Dune (84) by David Lynch (crappy movie version) -> Frank Herbert's Dune miniseries (2000) (awesome) -> Children of Dune miniseries by Greg Yaitanes (super awesome)

I forgot the shields drove the worms mad beside the whole laser + shield = nuke problem.
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Here's a product page:
http://www.labock.com/english/glass.htm

John]]>Jun 22nd 2007 3:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 22nd 2007 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 22nd 2007 3:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 22nd 2007 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 22nd 2007 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 22nd 2007 7:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 22nd 2007 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 22nd 2007 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 22nd 2007 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/21/darpa-funds-invisible-shoot-through-shield/Jun 22nd 2007 1:39PM