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Postby Diego Cueva » Feb 7, 2003 @ 6:47pm

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/02/07/japa ... index.html

Technology is used for weird things.. :roll:
Pretty cool though
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Postby sponge » Feb 7, 2003 @ 7:16pm

The BBC has a more indepth article if someone is interested in this (and who wouldn't be?) I don't know it offhand.
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Postby David Horn » Feb 7, 2003 @ 7:16pm

Grrr. Typical CNN - they don't actually bother to explain how it works. Give me BBC any day.
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Postby Warren » Feb 7, 2003 @ 7:34pm

WHOA! SWEET! That thing is amazing! I've heard of it being used on tanks and stuff, but now on a jacket! I didn't even though they've successfully done it, I thought it was only an idea, but wow, invisible Japanese people!
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Postby Paul » Feb 7, 2003 @ 9:19pm

this thing is rubbish. its basically a guy weraing a BLUE SCREEN like the films use. they use a 'special viewfinder' to make it look invisible?

yeah, thats great. excuse me, i wanna sneak past you guys into this secret bunker, could you put on this special headgear to render me invisible?
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Postby Diego Cueva » Feb 7, 2003 @ 10:08pm

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Postby Paul » Feb 8, 2003 @ 2:11am

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Postby Warren » Feb 8, 2003 @ 6:37pm

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Postby James S » Feb 8, 2003 @ 9:36pm

Or they could use it so that fat people can't say that they can't see their feet anymore
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Postby Paul » Feb 8, 2003 @ 11:47pm

yeah, i can really see those filthy slobs spending thousands on a special headset and camera system to see their feet.
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Postby Robotbeat » Feb 9, 2003 @ 4:03am

Die, Palm, Die. If that offended you, then get rid of your Palm OS device.
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