Scientists Develop Material So Dark That You Can't See It

Xrave said:
pics or gtfo
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Not hard to simulate. Take Photoshop, open an image, paint an object solid black. The absence of any highlights/definition is what we're talking about. So that is basically what you'd see.
 
I would like that on my car. I want it to look like there is nothing there except some floating headlights and rims.
 
First real world use: Kanye West making sunglasses out of it.

If you paint your dick and right hand with it, and start stroking it, can you even see what's happening? you knwo....for science
 
I wouldn't want clothes made with carbon nanotubes. This stuff is like asbestos' methed up meathead cousin.
 
This day has been prophesized

monolith-space-odyssey1.jpg
 
The material conducts heat seven and a half times more effectively than copper and has 10 times the tensile strength of steel.
Are we going to see new Heat sinks with this stuff?
 
Sparky said:
The material conducts heat seven and a half times more effectively than copper and has 10 times the tensile strength of steel.
Are we going to see new Heat sinks with this stuff?
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Those will be some expensive heatsinks. Carbon nanotubes can cost upward of $450 US per gram. Would be pretty cool looking though, and you could say your computer is powered by quantum singularities :cool:.
 
Sparky said:
The material conducts heat seven and a half times more effectively than copper and has 10 times the tensile strength of steel.
Are we going to see new Heat sinks with this stuff?
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I'd just be happy with it under the IHS of upcoming Intel processors instead of that shitty corner-cutting TIM paste.
 
They need to make a sphere of this stuff. show it on a table where one can not visibly see the contours of the object. It would look like a perfect circle.

Then roll it around on the table. It would still look like a solid circle not sphere moving around without actual "motion" of the object itself. Then attach some flower or something of that sort to show the actual shape.

That would convince me I need this stuff.

Oh and Iron man needs a suite of this stuff.
 
My first thought is that it might be used for cloaking devices of some kind. Even if it can't hide you, it can obscure the shapes/features enough to confuse people's eyes as to your location in 3D space. People and aircraft would look like black, 2D silhouette objects in a 3D world.

Also, it makes me think of this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjtkWZ1uCXo
 
koolaidkitten said:
I would like that on my car. I want it to look like there is nothing there except some floating headlights and rims.
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I would want light grey lines around the edges of the vehicle so it would look like a cheap invisible car from tv shows and cartoons. :)
 
Want to paint the inside of my garage in it. See my car just sitting there, floating in "nothingness".
 
Since it's so black you can't see the shape, that picture could be pornographic.
 
I wonder if they'll be able to make it frictionless as well as so black. Might make an interesting spaceship to throw into a sun.
 
Jerrin said:
Bingo! That was the first thing I thought of when I saw this.

I'm thinking that this as wallpaper in critical areas would really be awesome. Then cleaning and dust wouldn't be as big a problem as it is with velvet.
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The problem is, this stuff's made up of carbon nanotubes.

Right now those aren't particularly healthy to ingest/breathe.

Think "asbestosis" on an even finer-grained level.

On the flip side, having walls coated in this stuff might actually be disorienting.
 
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