Still, hot.

Those sunglasses are nice, but I wouldn't pay $210 for them.

Oh, I see, the frame is made of Ruthenium. Cute.

meh they cost less than my oakleys

I don't wear sunglasses. They look bad on guys with mohawks.

They go great with mullets though.

let's not start that here.

um, just curious, if Ruthenium is just a silvery metal that is extremely expensive where do the SR people get the color changing aspect from?

actually I would think the cardinal rule, "don't apply logic to the rules of SR" would apply, but whatever.

Granted, I'm fairly certain Arethusa was being sarcastic, but that's just me.

See, what happened is that during the Awakening, the Ruthenium got very angry...

Well, when a man and a woman love each other very much...

And then the Ninja flipped out and killed everybody, then commited seppuku!

By folding a frisbee in half and shoving it down his throat.

Guys, look! There's a ninja choking on a completely played out joke from four years ago! I don't think he's going to make it!

Yum, dikoted frisbees....

Oh, come on, you know I love you*.

*May not actually love you.

You may not!? But I can change, baby! I can change!

Ok..if I may inspect some seriousness to the subject of this post..this is how I imagine it would work.

the ruthenium acts basically as a mirror, the polymer is extremely thin sheets of LEDs based over a thin ruthenium layer thats over a plastic/cloth base.

Then you have your Super Computer interacting with the cameras to light the LEDs to reflect off the ruthenium layer the appropriate image.
Creating the "invisability" effect.

(several companies already have *real* suits that function like this and give partial invisability, I don't know if any of them specifically use ruthenium though..)
(edited in: and by partial invisability I mean along the lines of predator in the movies..very much obscures your vision but you can easily see once you spot him)

I believe the magic lives in the word "polymers"

Edit:DG beat me to it.

Small Article

I'm sure people have seen that one before, thats just the most readily availible example, web searching for invisability brings up all kinds of funky stuff to sift through(ugg).

It's been posted here before. The suit is not self contained and revolves around a projection setup. Among other things, it requires a large external camera setup and only works from a single angle. It's interesting, but it has very little to do with ruthenium as described in SR.

Well..of course it does, for one I know they've bettered it quite abit, I read something recently to that effect, but its the basis of how ruthenium works (in the future).

They both operate on the same basic principles, and this will someday lead to something thats as "effective" as ruth suits in the SR universe.
(thats also not the only company working on such a project)

Same basic principle? SR ruthenium is a flexible display screen. The jacket you linked to is just a reflective material that requires an external projector. The materials have nothing in common whatsoever.

That *is* the same basic principle, both regardless of how..are projecting an image to reflect off the (in SR's case, ruthenium) layer to give the illusion of invisability, flexible LEDs are more efficent for sure, but they both work in the same way.

They don't work in the same way. They don't even provide the same end result.

Ruths offer high concealability on whatever they're covering and can be moved with little-to-no effect (depending on speed and number of cameras on the suit).

The suit we have today is stationary only, requires a projector system and is a reflective material -- not a vision-modifying material.

When I last read it, it changes itself via electronic signals. When off, it looks like a regular pair of gray cloth.

I read it as, literally, cloth that changes colors depending on the electronic signal being sent. Not as a reflective material.

Some mix including Ruthenium does have optical properties, but rather the opposite: they absorb light in all the visible spectrum (so not at all reflective, but the opposite). They're studied for solar energy appliances.

As for displaying images on clothing without any projector, it's bulky, not very flexible and has a low-resolution (which in turn prevents any attempt of 3d illusion), but the best we have nowadays must be those:

http://ft-phototheque.fullsix.com/jlbweb/i...19/IMG15919.JPG
http://ft-phototheque.fullsix.com/jlbweb/i...25/IMG15925.JPG
http://ft-phototheque.fullsix.com/jlbweb/i...30/IMG15930.JPG

If you had camera to pick up the environment tones, you should get something.