Trying To Escape a Drone Using An Invisibility Shield 

The real question is can you use this to hide from the IRS

Neighbour : "honey , its that weird nerd again"

3:21“I’m so fast it thinks I’m a bike,” lol

As a drone, I can confirm that he seems like a bike 👍🏻👍🏻

4:00 I wonder if this would work: if towards the edge of the shield the bumps faded out so that there wasn't a sudden "on/off" of the blurring. It could also have a zig zag edge to further camouflage the edge from being so obvious.

3:02 you can even hide a mountain with it

Neat, you should try it with an IR cam. Would be interesting if that also gets spread out or goes through.

It would be cool to line these up along a yard into a privacy fence. Maybe they could be made narrow enough to be the size of typical fence panels and still work?

3:54 So why is it that the drone can pick you up again if you duck behind an opaque barrier, but not the lens? The software thinks you just vanished?

0:18 dont worry I can see ur shadow 😂😂

Anyone flying a drone is going to say "Ooh look at that invisibility shield, I wonder who or what is hiding behind it" LOL

What happen when we make it to an 'invisibility cube'? 🤔

This would be a good window screen for a glass door.

The "huh huh" laugh fuckin kills me 😂

the most actionlab man runs in his entire life captured in this video.

"I'm so fast it thinks I'm a bike" 😂😂

It would be interesting if this could be made even more flexible, as a privacy screen for windows that can be rolled down like a shade. Oh, or maybe go the other route and put a removable window in there so you can peek out. Just ordered one of my own! Man I'm really not going to wanna wait for December...

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Turning your neighbour's horse invisible:

Invisibility before gta 6 is crazy 💀

Now I know how to get rid of a killer drone swarm

I love these kinds of products that hinge upon manipulating an obscure physics trick, lighting in this case.

If you get hurt using an invisibility shield, then what do you do? Call an ambivaulance.

everybody gangsta till you turn one 90 degrees and put it in front of the other one

I think this is the same concept that is used in laser-based levels! Thanks for the amazing video

You're called James, right? Now all that's left is to name your son Harry and bequeath the invisibility shield to him.

it looks 3d printable . you would just need to spray it with something breaking up lines like epoxy or acid

I took a lot of drawing courses in my life, but this was better than all of them combined

Wow, you certainly never disappoint! I've been wondering if any kind of technology like this was in the works since Harry Potter came out. I remember when I was a kid someone told me that they were working on invisibility through manipulating light. It looks like they weren't completely lying! 😂

It is a very cool optical illusion, but the "blur" is quite noticeable.Thanks for another cool video!

This reminds me of in the late 1960s when I worked in an architectural office and we had new fluorescent light units fitted. The lights had a clear acrylic diffusing sheet which consisted of hundreds of very small prismatoids. The light tubes were virtually invisible so there was no glare.

If it's made out of bumpy horizontal plastic, can you just 3d print it yourself? I think 1mm nozzle and big enough should do it, right?

In the Black Mirror future we're doomed to become, these will be so valuable!

Nice effect! Also I love the skits lmao

Super bright infrared leds would probably do it. Also, with drones, a kitchen microwave oven magnetron would instanly drop it like a rock.

this tecnique is nice appreciated well good experiment

is this only one way and you can look through from your side? also whats the wavelength range to still work (1-2 sigma atleast)?

Buying the shield: Expensive Making the shield: Probably a lot cheaper... Maybe. 😂 LoL

4:06 reminds me of the old Monty Python sketch about how not to be seen

Tinfoil hat for thermals and you are set!😂

This felt like a trailer for an actual video.

seems very similar to the backlight diffuser from your TV. Fun to play with any nearly free since cracked TVs have no real value.

that really cool. What kind of wilderness is that though?

Don't be discouraged my friend, you are a bike. You're "revolutionary"😉

"I wonder if you can spot me now." Let me guess, you're behind that big, obvious, rectangular plexiglass "invisibility shield" panel you just showed us...

To think so many people haven't actually seen a sunset on the ocean makes me so happy

2:58 Glitch in the matrix... 😉

@theactionlab Do you think that a similar type of light diffraction sheeting/film could be adapted to direct more light into solar panels from any angle, so they'd be more effective at harvesting light energy when they aren't perfectly aligned with the sun? Is that already a thing? Can you do a short on it or something? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeasse!!! And, of course, THANK YOU for all your awesomely informative videos!!!

This is pretty easy to conceive. You just need the light ray to transmit in random direction.

People who does magic tricks will use this, I just know new tricks will be developed 💯

4:08 James Bond music was a nice touch

The man is a warlock! To the stake with you! 🤣

You can stick this to your large window of your house for avoiding peeking Tom seeing you from outside

Is there the optical invis shield with same qualities vs infrared?

That would be cool to have around the garden

Question. what does it look like from the other side? can you see through it?

Put the shield in a ring shape around the drone covering the drone from the front and sides.

@TheActionLab can you make a video on how do particle accelerators work?

Get another one and put it 90 degrees. Same experiment as with two polarized filters. Maybe a third at 45 degrees also 😎

If what I think I saw is correct, the bumps of the shield were like parallel lines of waves all having the same wavelength, which seems to be spreading the light in lines. What if the bumps were more like individual mounds which would spread the light in all directions? What if the mounds had an assortment of different sizes? And what if the edges of the shield were not straight lines but were a fractal like geometry which made the edges of the shield difficult to see?

Blocking heat is going to be harder

Yes, you can hide behind the shield, but you need to run to this shield before dron catch you

What happens if you take two of those shields put them behind one another but turn one by 90 degrees? Would this combination hide vertical and horizontal objects? Or would it undo the shield (probably not)?

I wonder, can you take a photo of the object behind the shield if you use panorama mode and walk a curved path with the camera pointed at it?

interesting, next question, can you hide from IR camera or night vision camera with it?

The human eye would be extremely horrible at seeing this at night I would think

This mean when I use two shields, one with vertical riffles and one with horizontal riffles I should be invisible? Is actually work for the heat signature of the body as well?

I love how Light functions. 🙂 And there's sooo much going on with it regarding my series of books, too. But my readers just have NO idea (by design). 😂 I friggin' love it. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨

Is it the same kind of lenticular plastic sheet that one can use to create stereo images?

this make me wonder what happen if you stacking 2 shields, one is vertical and the other horizontal, can you hide both vertical and horizontal object at the same time?🤔

I can't see you, but I can see a big translucent rectangle that you are hiding behind.

I seen this black plane that was like some sort of drone. Nobody was in it. There’s no way was way too small, but it was really big. Loud when I got over top of me, it literally looked like if you put a small triangle inside of a big one that was like half the size and then you remove the small triangle and what’s left is what it look like but the wing tips at the back Were angled a little bit so if you stood it straight up on the back wings and had it pointing straight up in the air, the back wings wouldn’t be flat be a can’t find it anywhere online or you could buy it or found anyone on RU-vid flying it. Someone had to have made it but I’ve only seen it flying at night and I’ve seen it two different times like a month apart and one time it was like about 10 miles away from the other spot, so it obviously flies pretty the thing is pure black and when you’re far away, it looks like a flying saucer somehow the way the lights are you always see three no matter what it wasn’t trying to hide. It had one flashing red light in the middle of it it must’ve been pretty big. It was cause it flew pretty slow, but it was loud when it got over top, three times the height of the trees it was flying i’m guessing somebody made it. I just really really wish I could’ve seen it better. It flew right over to top of me. I stopped at a stop sign and it flew right towards me right over top of me. It was just away and it was pure black you couldn’t even see it barely see out line of it barely on the night sky like I mean barely see it. I imagine if I got out of the car without the dashboard and lights on. I probably could’ve saw it but like the noise it was making it how it sounded and how many miles away from the first spot it was and how the first time I saw it it’s just circling around the same spot, like checking out weird like the way it’s hovering around and like almost searching for something and then the second time I see it. It’s basically cruising around doing the same thing. I imagine it’s just some kid messing around looking behind peoples houses places they’ve never seen before. There are mansions around my area that don’t even know about that luxury areas that you live here 80 years not even know they were there and you’ll drive past it every day, so I understand why it was hovering around like it was at the first spot and it wasn’t trying to hide it was clearly lit up. It had a red flashing light on it as soon as I stop my car the second time I seen it I tried to record it, and I accidentally turned the flash on and that’s when it started coming towards me, and it flew right over me super slow I mean this thing had to have been like 6 to 8 feet wide

This info would be very helpful in the upcoming ai robot apocalypse!

Really cool

If the cylindrical glass rods or fibers are much more thiner, then it could minimize the blur effect, and completely act a Harry Potter invisible cloth

This is RU-vid worth watching.

Guess it's time to prepare countermeasures to future autonomous killer drones lol

Very interested in the invisibility shield Where can I purchase them

it's a horizontal blur shader!

try light-weight mirror plexi-glass panel instead

🤔 wow! Well done queue.👌

You can hide things also horizontal, waves in 1 drection hide things in 1 direction, if 2 directions, these waves forms balls, you need half of a balls-shape. Sadly this blurrs the image and will certainly lose vs the image re-direction construction which let the actual light rays distract to the sides and re-unify behind you. Which results in a perfect invisibility and clear image of the things behind you. (Except the frame is slightly visible, if not formed like a lens.

It seems incredibly impractical and with how obvious it is, to anyone actually trying to find you, hiding behind a nontranspranent sheet would be just as useful.

Have you tested how effective this is at night? I'm wondering if it will be more effective against the human eye at night as the blurriness might not be as noticeable.

Thanks.

Forget camo clothes, this is my new hunting attire

What happens if you use two shields one in front of the other and you rotate one 90 deg so it blurs vertically?

That's actually **cking amazing. 😂👍

I have a weird optics question. There is a gas station sign in the distance. The regular unleaded price is a red light display and I can very easily read it. The ethanol free price is a blue display; it appears fuzzy and I cannot read it. If I make a loose fist and look through the space between my fingers and my palm (like a spyglass) and I slowly open my pinky until only a small point of light comes in I can read the blue light price very easily. Please explain.

If it was an irregular shape and not a rectangle that would help a lot.

I wonder if this can be used (or maybe already used) as "camouflage" in military settings. From ambushes to hiding entire columns of vehicles.

What happens if you put a second another invisiblility shield rotated 90 degrees. Does the ground open up and swallow you and take you back to the dinosaur times?

Bro identified himself as a bike 🚲💀💀💀😂😂

What about from behind the shield and directly above??

as long as people dont see the shield you're completely invisible

I can't believe fools would spend that much on a lenticular plastic sheet. That Kickstarter you promoted is robbery.

Finally I can take a break from Duolingo.

Does it hide horizontal things if you place another shield perpendicular to the first one?

Still won’t be running around hogwarts with it!

Skip the cube....make it into an umbrella!