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Star wars? Companies fight over invisibility cloak, deflector shield claims | Redux

Star wars? Companies fight over invisibility cloak, deflector shield claims

Comic-Con 2010 - WB booth - Harry Potter - Invisibility Cloak
Comic-Con 2010 - WB booth - Harry Potter - Invisibility Cloak by Pop Culture Geek
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Cloaking and shields have long protected starcruisers from blaster shots and rebel fighters is Star Wars and Star Trek. Here on Earth, top researchers have been battling too, not over the fate of the empire but over whose tech will someday shield U.S. ships. Fractal Antenna Systems came out swinging Wednesday over an invisibility cloak "perfected" by researchers at Duke and Imperial College. Company CEO and inventor Nathan Cohen issued a scathingly critical press release throwing very visible zingers -- and claiming he invented it first. “[Their tech] makes you more, not less, visible,” Cohen said. '[Their tech] makes you more, not less, visible. '- Fractal Antenna Systems CEO and inventor Nathan Cohen Fractal Antenna Systems says its invisibility cloak technology was given the world’s first patent in August 2012.

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Nathan Cohen

Overall Sentiment: 0.142549

Relevance: 0.900511

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0“[Their tech] makes you more, not less, visible,” Cohen said. ...
-0.0115779"There is no attempt to 'image.' Not only is the power deflected safely to the other side, but there is virtually no change to the object caused by the radiation pressure … There is no 'bounce back,'" Cohen said, ...
0.159403"There is no attempt to 'image.' Not only is the power deflected safely to the other side, but there is virtually no change to the object caused by the radiation pressure … There is no 'bounce back,'" Cohen said, adding that "this is truly a new and novel technology.”
0“If you move half a degree in angle, it stops working. If you move half a percent in bandwidth, it stops working. Even when in exact alignment, there are variations in intensity that, according to their data, change by almost 50 percent … by attempting to disappear at one super-narrow wavelength you actually increase your profile at all others," Cohen said.  ...
0.0986876"If you move a bit off axis, you are toast, even at that one super-narrow microwave band,” Cohen added.
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 5
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.2465127
  • Mean: 0.04930254
  • Standard Deviation: 0

Justin

Overall Sentiment: -0.227884

Relevance: 0.320661

Star Wars

Overall Sentiment: -0.104197

Relevance: 0.315497

Allison Barrie

Overall Sentiment: -0.110793

Relevance: 0.264793

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Additional Info:

Company: Fractal Antenna Systems

Overall Sentiment: -0.11364

Relevance: 0.431511

Organization: Duke

Overall Sentiment: 0.0807822

Relevance: 0.317862

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