This Chameleon Robot Blends in With Its Background

Check out this short video from engineers at Wuhan University in China, showing off a special robot they developed. Its unique capability ensures that you can never hide from their robots, while they can hide from you. This robot can blend in with its background. Now they could be anywhere and we will never know. They could be ready to strike you at any moment.

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This robot has a pretty neat trick up its sleeve. It uses light sensors to detect the background color, then applies an electric field to plasmonic panels that change to the appropriate color to blend in. So by the time you actually see it and scream, it will already be too late.

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Thanks science. Now I can’t trust anything. Stupid robots hiding everywhere. Now someone has to invent glasses that will let us see these robots.

You can read the full paper on how the technology works over at ACSNANO.

[New Scientist via Laughing Squid via Geekologie]

Invisiplug Powerbars Camouflage Themselves With Your Hardwood Floor

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There are areas of your home that don’t look quite as polished as others. For instance, near your workdesk you’ll normally find a bunch of surge protectors or powerbars that you’d love to be able to conceal, but would require much too much work to do so. So you just let them be and pretend they’re not there. But what about the Invisiplug pictured above? They’re a range of surge protectors with a hardwood laminate finish, designed to blend in and camouflage with whatever kind of wooden floor you already have. They come in 3 “colors”: Light Natural, Medium Cherry & Dark Oak. The version with two USB ports is $30, while the one without is just $20. That’s a small price to make your home just a tiny bit more harmonious.

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Hide from Arnold in This Predator Camouflage T-shirt

Predator fans now have a new favorite shirt that they can wear… while in the jungle. And hiding from any mercenaries who are hunting them. Soon, the hunter will become the hunted.

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With this Predator Camo Sublimation tee you can show your love of Predator and at the same time, make people all disoriented and dizzy. Maybe blend in with a tropical tree or something too. It comes in sizes from small to 3XL, so it is good for small predators and large boss predators alike.
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It is perfect for your next con appearance. Although I don’t think it will help you hide in that environment.

[via Fashionably Geek]