Program aims to develop systems that deliver the goods, then poof out of existence

outreach@darpa.mil 10/9/2015 ICARUS

It sounds like an engineering fantasy, or maybe an episode from Mission Impossible: A flock of small, single-use, unpowered delivery vehicles dropped from an aircraft, each of which literally vanishes after landing and delivering food or medical supplies to an isolated village during an epidemic or disaster.  And it would be nothing more than a fantasy, were it not that the principle behind disappearing materials has already been proven. Continue reading Vanishing Acts: A Call for Disappearing Delivery Vehicles →