Black Is The New Black

[6Foot2]

Link: Blackest is the new black: Scientists have developed a material so dark that you can't see it... - Science - News - The Independent

 

...A British company has produced a "strange, alien" material so black that it absorbs all but 0.035 per cent of visual light, setting a new world record. To stare at the "super black" coating made of carbon nanotubes – each 10,000 times thinner than a human hair – is an odd experience. It is so dark that the human eye cannot understand what it is seeing. Shapes and contours are lost, leaving nothing but an apparent abyss....

[SteveT]

Sounds like my wallet!!!!!

[Oaktech]

"I'm only wearing black until they invent a darker colour"

[SYNACK]

Trench coat

[JJonas]

If you painted the walls, floor and ceiling inside a building with this stuff I would imagine it would be the visual equivalent of an anechoic chamber.

[sted]

If you painted the walls, floor and ceiling inside a building with this stuff I would imagine it would be the visual equivalent of an anechoic chamber.

 

or paint an anechoic chamber in it that would probably be a highly disturbing place to be

[truebluesteve]

"'It's the wild colour scheme that freaks me out,' said Zaphod, whose love affair with the ship had lasted almost three minutes into the flight. 'Every time you try and operate these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up in black to let you know you've done it.'"