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Star Trek Cloak within 18 months?

by versking May 25, 2006 8:15AM PDT

I don't know if anyone has spotted this story yet, but you could be the proud owner of your very own star trek style prototype cloaking device within 18 months.

More info - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5016068.stm

Could be interesting....

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Cnn's take on it too

by Redhats Q May 25, 2006 8:50AM PDT

/http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/05/25/invisibility.cloak.ap/index.html?section=cnn_tech

Yep Another bit of Star Trek thats moved into High Tech

I wonder if a lot of this was due to Gene Rodenbery's obsession of working with Tech Advisers who actually did real science too.

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The Harry Potter Spin on it

by nelsondr May 25, 2006 5:00PM PDT

USA Today has pretty much the same article at http://tinyurl.com/k3wjc I guess the went with the Potter take avoid any plagiarism accusations.

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