“Researchers say they are rapidly closing in on new types of materials that can throw a cloak of invisibility around objects…”
(a few paragraphs down)
“The latest research papers describe how metamaterial could be fabricated to bend light in carefully curved paths around the object to be hidden, so that an observer would see right through it — or more accurately, right around it — to the other side.”
- Original Article
How very cool! However… SHHHH… don’t tell Bush. I can just see the headlines: White House speculates that Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction were hidden beneath invisibility cloaks!
This could also make for an excellent new excuse for lost homework: Oh, teacher, I finished it, really... I just must have dropped my invisibility cloak on it. Oh, the possibilities!
