What are the hopeful uses for making ever more absorbing black materials?
trolling Anish Kapoor?
New carbon nanotube-metal hierarchical material is 10x darker than Vantablack
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Haha would this even be legal? Nevermind - it’s not even feasible https://www.quora.com/Lets-say-Im-a-rich-racer-who-wants-to-...
It can be done for limited production, but it doesn't fully hide from LIDAR https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/bmw-x6-vantablack-paint-c...
From the CNET article:
>> Typically, the lidar unit can spot things from more than 328 feet away.
>> In this case, the company said the darkest of dark BMWs would need to be about 72 feet away before the lasers and ambient light register the moving black hole.
Re: New carbon nanotube-metal hierarchical material is 10x darker than Vantablack
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In my opinion, if you could afford $35,000 for a Vantablack wrist watch, you can afford another $35,000 for this one too haha. I doubt many of those purchasers were on the bubble.
High end watches aren't priced like regular consumer goods; you can resell them for close to (and sometimes more) than you paid for them, so the "cost" is much much less than the price. What's most interesting about this watch is the steel/vanta combo costs the same as the solid gold version without vanta. Apparently just that small bit of vanta costs more than a large chunk of gold right now.
Not if you pay MSRP; for H. Moser you’ll take a big loss. The material value of the gold is also really small.
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It's a bit weird to demonstrate the colour of vantablack by adding a shine to it.
I was thinking the same thing. You can see how they must have felt a black circle on a screen doesn't look too impressive, but this is a rather backwards way of dealing with that. (I would have added shine to the background and watch body but not the face...)
There is a piece of domed sapphire in front of it with an imperfect anti reflective coating.
Re: New carbon nanotube-metal hierarchical material is 10x darker than Vantablack
#46Can someone please explain to me the race to the blackest black?
vr headsets could benefit: less glare
Re: New carbon nanotube-metal hierarchical material is 10x darker than Vantablack
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Painting your car in it to avoid lidar
Haha would this even be legal? Nevermind - it’s not even feasible https://www.quora.com/Lets-say-Im-a-rich-racer-who-wants-to-...
It can be done and it is legal. In fact, it has been done...
https://www.bmw.com/en/design/the-bmw-X6-vantablack-car.html
Re: New carbon nanotube-metal hierarchical material is 10x darker than Vantablack
#48Can someone please explain to me the race to the blackest black?
It's cool.
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#49Re: New carbon nanotube-metal hierarchical material is 10x darker than Vantablack
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Haha would this even be legal? Nevermind - it’s not even feasible https://www.quora.com/Lets-say-Im-a-rich-racer-who-wants-to-...
It can be done and it is legal. In fact, it has been done... https://www.bmw.com/en/design/the-bmw-X6-vantablack-car.html
With all that flashing and shaking I cannot perceive anything with or without VB. Ads guys today lost their roof completely.