Transparent aluminum! Would that be worth somethin' to ya, eh?
By Darren Murph 
posted Aug 4th 2009 1:44AM
posted Aug 4th 2009 1:44AM
posted Aug 4th 2009 1:44AM
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omggg!
Scotty: HELLO COMPUTER !
too bad he could live just a few months more to see this happen. That is just so very very sad
Good job Engadget
this story is about 2 weeks old now...
NOW WUT UP WIT DAT?
seriously, I don't mind engadget covering science, but you guys need to get you facts straight. the aluminium that they turned transparent is NOT an inch thick. It's 52 nanometer thick, that's 500.000 times thinner than an inch! but hey, what's the difference? Here is where the work was originally published: http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nphys1341.html
@steve: I agree. Reporting on science experiments is fine, but inflating it to SCIENCE!!! is ridiculous.
This is old news:
http://www.surmet.com/docs/Product_sheet_ALON.pdf
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123012131
Obviously, Steve never watched Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. That, or he did too much LDS back in college.
/or, should I just press delete?
@decypher44
Yes, doing too much Mormonism would preclude you from knowing much about the science field, I suppose.
NIMOY! Not NEMOY! I am so angry right now!
If Engadget doesn't fire you I will start an internet petition!
For real, I'm pretty pissed right now... although the video was pretty amusing.
Well look at that, Darren fixed it right away, maybe he shouldn't be fired.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC73PHdQX04
.....put that in your pipe and smoke it...
@sacapuntas:
Ow my head... What was in that stuff?
NERD ALERT!!!!!!
Shaddup you Star Trek nerd!
we are called trekkers you dick.
sacapuntas, that video should be the new "rickroll." It's much more disturbing.
Internets, get on it!
That video... is the best thing I've seen this week!
Nimoy. And I already hold the patent on this one.
Upvoted for the "samurai jack" nick
lolface at the star trek episode
Yknow, he could've saved a lot of time if he had stopped pressing Alt-Tab...
Poke around the available info on 4th generation nukes and you will find this x-ray effect used to great advantage. Everybody and their cousin are working on these weapons, but they can't admit it. Instead they cook up weird cover stories like this one.
so....how is it a new state of matter again?
This discovery could help explain the existence of Dark Matter..
Big deal ... I can become invisible for 100 femtoseconds.
I did read about this last week and it seriously is pretty cool if they can improve upon it.
I'm hoping though someone creates miniaturization so that I can move my furniture around my home.
huh i luve how in movies they create advanced graphics and hack the most secured banks with like 12 keystroke
its just that they make it 2 easy dont u think
yeah i know it barley even takes me 3 keystrokes my graphics are so advanced, idiots.
*barely
well according to the video if you slide your finger across the the Function keys you can get a 15 year old computer to process any amount of information faster than you can type.
I was under the impression nasa had been using transparent aluminum for a while now. If so what's the difference between this and the new state of matter?
I was wondering that too.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/transparent-aluminum-armor.htm
They've been using aluminum oxynitride, a crystal similar to sapphire. This is pure aluminum, and even treated it's not transparent to visible light.
OMG, I can finally have an almost invisible bike I can ride. Eat your heart out wonderwomen and your invisible jet!!!
Combine this with those "universal" mirrors and those magnets that can be used for jets (and whatever else comes in mind) that engadget posted a few days ago and you have yourself a great jet/idea. It can be used very effectively withing the army and their transportation vehicles.
It was invisible to the infrared spectrum (ie. we couldn't see through it still) for a tiny fraction of a second at a ridiculously tiny point, and the material was very thin. See the comments on dailytech for a better understanding of what really happened. It's article was horrible too, but someone smart enough to explain it popped up in the comments, lol.
:O
Shiny.
[completely wrong cult-scifi reference]
Zao gao!
Woooo, I would not mind a transparent Macbook pro and iMac.
that would not be good for apple. people would see macs use standard pc motherboards and components like dell and hp.
Wow, flashback time, I recall announcement of this like a freaking decade ago now I think.
40 femtoseconds? How much time is that in dog years?
exactly the same
exactly the same
exactly the same
Nope 7 times that.
No one's seen this state of matter because it was invisible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_oxynitride
Hai there 2003! Haven't seen you for a while :)