News Currents: Stealthy Clothes, Unexplained Buildings, And Panoramas From Above

In a day in which analysts suggested that 2013 will see the launch of at least five new products from Apple , and thousands are attending the Consumer Electronics Show, even more technologies are in the news.

One is “stealth wear,” as described in this story from Salon . This combination art and technology project that promises to offer protection against a variety of surveillance tactics, including airborne drones and thermal imaging. The designer, Adam Harvey, even devised a pocket that will black out a cell phone signal, thereby protecting the wearer from GPS tracking.

Wired has a story about how Google Earth helped a former CIA analyst find some mysterious patterns and apparent construction in a formerly barren area outside Kashgar, a small city in China. Several commenters on the story suggest that it may be a manufacturing or agricultural processing center.

And finally -- The Atlantic highlights an effort to provide a new perspective on the city skyline. It’s a panorama taken from above Manhattan. The image, created by Sergey Semonov, won first prize in the amateur category of the Epson International Photographic Pano Awards.