Gadgetory

the world's largest aerospace company boeing has been granted a patent for a Star Wars like force field to protect vehicles and buildings from shock waves of nearby explosions the design for the force field is named the method and system for shock wave attenuation via electromagnetic arc the force field system is not designed to prevent direct impact from shells or shrapnel like you see here in this clip from Star Wars The Phantom Menace but instead will protect a target from the damaging effects of shockwaves from a nearby impact assistant consists of a sensor that detects a shock wave generating explosion and sends a signal to an arc generator that receives that signal and ionizes a small region next to the target producing a plasma field between the target and the explosion using lasers electricity and microwaves this small plasma field would differ from the surrounding environment in temperature density and Composition providing a buffer between the target and the explosion that reflects refracts absorbs and deflects at least a portion of the shockwave according to the patent fire if you would like to learn more about Boeing's force-field technology click the link to the patent in the krave blog post