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Kanuckistan wrote:Show off your 'heart', with the push of a button 'opening' a hole in your chest, holographics fed by woven-in med sensors relaying real-time data.
This might help you figure out what I'm thinking, CF.
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Kanuckistan wrote:Show off your 'heart', with the push of a button 'opening' a hole in your chest, holographics fed by woven-in med sensors relaying real-time data.
This might help you figure out what I'm thinking, CF.
Ah. Yeah, I can see what you mean.

Though I'm still in favor of opening the vict - err, patient up. Preferably with a chain-scalpel.
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The Cerberus Alliance wrote: This might help you figure out what I'm thinking, CF.

Not to undercut my own exports, but that's mostly the holographics and real-time medical sensor data - Thermopticsâ„¢ just let you 'place' the hologram inside your body.

I'll note this stuff can also be used to allow you to see through other things, however, like armour plate, or maybe you want to be able to see through your computer tower. You just need a physical path for the light to go through(and you can incorporate nifty optical effects at the same time, dynamicly even).


As for military applications, the idea was originally intended to give passive stealth to the armour of some spec-op in an RP where CF was invaded by those aliens with Somebody-Else's Problem fields. Way back, eh? I think the armour was supposed to be powered by fly-wheels, too. :mrgreen:
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Kanuckistan wrote:Not to undercut my own exports, but that's mostly the holographics and real-time medical sensor data - Thermopticsâ„¢ just let you 'place' the hologram inside your body.
Rereading it, I figured as much. It just looks like, with a little bit of extra development to make something specialized rather than having all of the current functionality, it could be used for something other than military purposes or entertainment.
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Zerstorendarian soldiers have a system like this in their armour, just less powerful. However, there's no way we would want our civilians getting a hold of luxuries like this.
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While interesting, I don't see how we as a people would find this product particularly useful.
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Zerstorendar wrote:Zerstorendarian soldiers have a system like this in their armour, just less powerful. However, there's no way we would want our civilians getting a hold of luxuries like this.

Just regulate the allowed refraction/overall quality, and/or the size of the transparency - it's a precision engineered system that routes light around whatever's inside it, afterall, so buying a bunch of wrist bands or a shirt with a ten inch window through the chest won't really help.

Sskiss wrote:While interesting, I don't see how we as a people would find this product particularly useful.
...you see absolutely no use for invisible dinosaurs? If nothing else it would make hunting easier(even if the prey hears/smells you, the lack of visual cues can easily allow you to confuse them on the chase, to say nothing of ambush hunting and getting close to start with), and if you put it on your armour and integrate a proper heat management system(and I can sell you thermoelectric converters to deal with heat buildup, or just CTE heat sinks) you've got true thermoptic stealth.

You can also use it to see through armour without compromising strength, and while cameras and sensors can do that, this probably scales down better. Light of harmful intensity will just polarise it, as will lasers, so no risk there.
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Sskiss wrote:While interesting, I don't see how we as a people would find this product particularly useful.
Seconded, just not aplicable to Kreshh

I mean, being invisible/semi-transparant already...
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Kreshh wrote: Seconded, just not aplicable to Kreshh

I mean, being invisible/semi-transparant already...

What about making equipment/etc. invisible?
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Kanuckistan wrote:
Kreshh wrote: Seconded, just not aplicable to Kreshh

I mean, being invisible/semi-transparant already...

What about making equipment/etc. invisible?
Have you seen my warship? We do transparant, we do it well, we do it hard.
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