Sentences with phrase «for invisibility»

Unlike hearing aids, which for decades have been crafted to be as unnoticeable as possible, IQbuds don't make a play for invisibility.

In recent years, optics researchers have come up with numerous concepts for invisibility cloaks — camouflaging that would effectively reroute light so as to conceal an object within.

He might as well have been too for his invisibility tonight.

As for his invisibility, is that on him, Kirk, or Gruden?

Not exact matches

No one wants quotas for Catholic artists, but does it not seem newsworthy that the religion of one - quarter of the U.S. population has retreated to the point of invisibility in the fine arts?

Writing in the Nation, Alyssa Katz says, «The historical perspective the series offers is invaluable, but its parade of evidence amounts to media junk food, best consumed for the guilty pleasure of staring a fearsome beast in the eye from the safety of invisibility.»

That only smoothes the way for future victims and condemns them to invisibility.

Then again, I couldn't even find Ozil for over half the game, put on his invisibility cloak again.

The contour shape adds extra comfort and invisibility for more peace of mind.

For total invisibility and discretion, this was designed to create unique ergonomics to provide a natural breast shape.

Attending births since 2004 with a loving, attentive, «wallflower» style of midwifery, practicing the art of invisibility at birth, respect of a mother's space, and the use of natural, non-allopathic remedies for health and healing, Anita is certified in Neonatal Resuscitation and a graduate of Ancient Art Midwifery Institute which focuses specifically in training only out - of - hospital midwives.

In 2011, for instance, scientists devised an «invisibility carpet,» which conceals objects under etched layers of silicon oxide and silicon nitride.

Recent research, mostly sponsored and initiated by militaries, has revealed the potential for full 3D cloaking and invisibility in free space.

This is coupled with women's invisibility - there is very little coverage of women's issues or women's achievements, particularly for BME women, older women or women with disabilities, and an «almost visceral» ridiculing of women in power or in public life.

Every child has a favorite superhero, admired for the special powers used to help others.That could be iron strength or invisibility.

Leonhardt is best known for his work on how metamaterials can be used to fashion invisibility devices and how fiber optics can be used to produce analogs of the event horizon, the point of no return in black holes.

That reads a bit like a line from a Harry Potter / Star Trek mash - up, but researchers have been working on real invisibility cloaks for a while now.

Invisibility means no refraction of light, you see, and no refraction means no focusing, Yakov Perelman explains in Physics for Entertainment.

This study develops a general recipe for the design of media that create perfect invisibility within the accuracy of geometrical optics.

The breakthrough in this work: Smith's metamaterial device is the first to handle a very wide range of wavelengths, a necessity for Harry Potter — level invisibility.

For example, building a useful invisibility cloak — the kind that could hide a person or a military tank — requires crafting many little devices that pick up a ray of light on the far side of an object, away from the observer, and then relay that ray, row by row, around the object.

After that occurs, there will still be one big limitation: Anyone inside the invisibility cloak would not be able to see out, for the same reason that an outside observer could not see in.

That year a team at Duke University built the first rudimentary device for hiding objects, akin to the boy wizard's invisibility cloak.

Only then could scientists consider making more complicated, three - dimensional assemblies for applications such as true - color holographic displays or Harry Potter — style invisibility cloaks that make people and objects we can see disappear.

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Indeed, such an invisibility cloak has already been realized for microwaves.

For those who desire invisibility, engineers are developing exotic materials that can bend an object's light completely out of view.

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The light - emitting objects that have preoccupied astronomers for ages — all the countless stars and galaxies — are apparently exceptions to the rule of cosmic invisibility.

Better MRI scanners could result from a trick in which a magnetic field springs up from nowhere, using materials famous for their link to invisibility cloaks

Besides invisibility cloaks, ideas have been floated to exploit metamaterials for high - resolution optical «superlenses», devices to better...

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In vacuum, air, and other surroundings supporting ballistic light propagation according to Maxwell's equations, invisibility cloaks which are macroscopic, three - dimensional, broadband, passive, and that work for all directions and polarizations of light, are not consistent with the laws of physics.

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The laws of physics prevent an optical invisibility cloak from making objects in air invisible for any directions, colors, and polarizations.

«Invisibility cloak for immune cells keeps system healthy.»

Chilly mice develop more tumors; gut bacteria aid cancer treatment; two Y chromosome genes sufficient for assisted reproduction; HIV's «invisibility cloak»

I am loyal to a few brands: Simone Perele for everyday, Calvin Klein if invisibility is needed and La Perla for the evening.

Warring tribes fought over these resources, with one praying to the panther goddess for guidance — which led to the first Black Panther leader, who ruled over most of the land (save for one rebellious faction), and who designed an invisibility forcefield over the realm of Wakanda, to protect its people and to prevent the magical elements from falling into the wrong hands.

Really the film excels with its visuals, a lovely looking old fashioned 30's New York complete with dated cars, store fronts and atmospheric swirling mist, the invisibility effects, shadow effects, hands on makeup and a surprisingly cool looking outfit for the Shadow (did someone pinch ideas for «Dark City» here?).

She has grown so accustomed to this invisibility that she seems to have become invisible even to herself except for the brief pause at the pool each day where she watches the children swim and remembers her daughter.

The reason for Frost's invisibility is later explained in screenwriter David Lindsay - Abaire's mythology (working from a series of books by William Joyce).

Overlooked in the workplace, their invisibility makes them perfect for the CIA's most covert missions.

This is where Baker locates the unlikely encounter of 21 year - old Jane (Dree Hemingway, daughter of Mariel), a girl who struts about in hot pants under the California sun and makes a living selling her youth to the camera, and 85 year - old Sadie (an arresting performance by newcomer Besedka Johnson) who survives her state of invisibility as a senior by being a cantankerous recluse with a taste for bingo.

The suitcase does however contain: a nifler (a platypusial creature with a fondness for snatching shiny objects); an erumpent (rhino - like when it comes to size and temperament and, inconveniently, in heat); several occamy (winged serpents with an aptitude for size - shifting); a demiguise (simian, and blessed with powers of invisibility and precognition); a thunderbird (pretty much what is sounds like, only larger); and a variety of other, shall we say, fantastic beasts.

If you're reading this having spent the last four years hiding under an invisibility cloak, now is the time to emerge because Warner Bros have just dropped a first - look teaser for a new spin - off movie.

At the same time, its depiction of the gay lifestyle as one of despair and social invisibility could have proven to further frighten him; in fact, it seems to have laid the emotional groundwork for his cinematic intimations of love as tragic and doomed.»

Voiced with a pitch - perfect irreverent tone by Rogen (if there was ever a wit built for CG creatures, it's this guy), Paul is an intriguingly profane discovery, painfully aware of human reaction to his appearance and tired of using his powers of invisibility.