The invisibility cloak

No, this is not an article about Tolkien and his fiction work or some new skill in World of Warcraft, but a true invisibility cloak that could become a reality within the next five years.

Using nanotechnology and metamaterials combined with a few drops of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, Purdue University, Indiana discovered that they could create such a device by bending light around itself like Read more

Who wants an invisible cloak?

Scientists are on the verge of developing materials that can rend people or objects invisible. Forget about sci-fi movies, Hollywood must think of other fiction subjects, the actual ones will enter our lives sooner than we think.

“Researchers have demonstrated for the first time they were able to cloak three-dimensional objects using artificially engineered materials that redirect light around the objects. Previously, they only have been able to cloak very thin two-dimensional objects. Read more