​Stealth-related technologies that emanate from military applications can positively augment civilian life. These are areas where adaption is still considered impractical, or economically unviable, where applications still make little commercial sense to be transmuted to the civilian arena. The ability of using electromagnetic wave absorbent technologies however, can have significant use for civilian usage:



1. Infrared absorbent technologies: Can be applied on apparels to insulate the end-user from harmful or unwanted ultraviolet radiation.
2. Saving of civilian life: The ability of making civilian undetectable by military subjects. Bulk of the problem is that chemical or fabric technologies used by the military are economically inviable to mass-produce for civilian use, due to the hefty cost of intellectual property licensing, and the lack of will to share and to distribute this potentially life-saving technology with the rest of the world. The crux of the matter is that it make little logical sense for militaries to share technologies that can potentially allow their enemies to develop rivaling technologies that will undermine the efficiency of their armed forces.
3. Spillover to other sectors of technology: What is perhaps the most interesting thing about stealth-related technologies, is that it can potentially lead to developments in other arenas of technological applications, e.g., how refined visual stealth-related technologies can improve our understanding on how to create medical solutions to problems humanity faces today, such as visual impairment. Stealth-related technologies can potentially spawn gadgets that allow visually impaired patients to regain some degree of sight, by incorporating electromagnetic radiation absorbent technologies into existing medical solutions to help patient regain some measure of sight. This is a highly unexplored cloud opportunity that can potentially give the company with the first-mover advantage an unrivaled ground of commercial capitalisation.

​MASS-PRODUCTION (3D Printing)
While the invisibility cloaks currently being developed are too small to serve any purpose, a better understanding and development of stealth technology in the near future would result in the possibility of combining other technologies with stealth. For example, given the recent developments of 3D printing, a possibility of making invisibility cloaks a commercial reality, would be using 3D printers to reproduce the current technology, making life-sized ‘cloaks’, and not the nano-sized meta-materials that scientists are currently limited at. If 3D printing that can produce up to the fidelity required by stealth-related technologies, we are potentially heralding these technologies into mainstream, by using cost-effective printing solutions to mass-produce. With mass production comes widespread adoption, which further compresses the cost of production.

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What is ultimately an interesting development, will be that if stealth technologies can be spilled over to generate civilian applications. Existing application are painfully military-centric, with a very precise and often narrowly contextualised to suit military situations, e.g. concealed predation, where a target is killed by a military asset that is completely hidden, and therefore unbeknownst to the target. These are specific examples which denotes the operational paradigms and the situational requirements that are strictly confined in a military constit, which do not exactly provide any narrative favouring civilian application of the technology presently harnessed by the military.



 

​COMMERCIAL AND PERSONAL USE

An interesting area which we envision visual stealth technology to be applied to, would be in commercial and personal use. A fun example of this would be to develop devices that would prevent melting chocolates. The idea behind this would be again based on the refraction of light rays, which would then prevent light rays from reaching the chocolate, and being translated into heat. Invisibility cloaks, if becoming a readily available commercial (albeit expensive product), can also be used to protect innocent civilians from being attacked during war time, or help people with skin problems who cannot exposed to sunlight (eg. xeroderma pigmentosa - a rare genetic disorder where the ability to repair damage caused by ultra-violet is deficient, and in extreme cases, all exposure to sunlight must be forbidden). A very relevant use of invisibility cloaks in our daily lives, would be to hiding jewellery and other valuables so it becomes a form of defensive security. The catch: after being hidden, would we, ourselves, be able to find these items again?





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​SOLAR EFFICIENCY

For example, ongoing research on technology used for visual stealth can be utilized to improve the efficiency of solar cells. Since stealth technology involves the refraction of light rays, scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany have been working to apply these techniques to creating an invisibility cloak that can not only make things disappear visually, but would also help concentrate solar rays into more efficient solar energy technology. This could also be a potential trigger for the switch to alternative energy resources, and hence help to further save the world’s resources.​

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