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'Metamaterial' may make invisibility cloaks possible

Thursday, November 4, 2010 - 12:27pm

It's the ultimate dream item for perverts everywhere: the invisibility cloak. Long the realm of sci-fi, it's been something thats understandably not yet around. But it may actually become a reality in the future thanks to a new "metamaterial."

Light-bending invisibility cloaks lead to new water-defying technology

Kevin Hall

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 1:45pm

Making things invisible is a pretty neat trick. In 2006, a team of Duke University scientists bent rays of light around a copper ring (which was still visible, thanks to pesky visible light). Now researchers say they are getting...

Cloak blanket bringing us closer to the dream of true invisibility

Kevin Hall

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 - 4:51am

Cloaking technology doesn't only exist in the realm of science fiction: researchers at Imperial College London are trying to create a cloaking blanket to hide objects in visible light — something that has never been done. Visible light's small...

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'Metamaterial' may make invisibility cloaks possible

Light-bending invisibility cloaks lead to new water-defying technology

Cloak blanket bringing us closer to the dream of true invisibility

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