'Cloaks of invisibility’ could soon be within our reach

Move over Harry Potter — ‘cloaks of invisibility’ could soon be within reach of mere mortals - Once the stuff of pure fantasy ...
EDN

Update: Group demos metamaterials for invisible cloak

SAN FRANCISCO — In the TV series Star Trek, cloaking devices were first introduced and used by the Romulans that caused their spaceships to become invisible. Is cloaking a reality today? At this ...
Gizmodo

That Invisible Cloak is Still Being Worked On, Still Edging Closer to Reality

Your pervy, Harry Potter-fueled dreams are edging closer to reality, now British scientists have used metamaterials to bend light in a different manner to previous attempts. Now, it works with a ...
inforum

A working invisibility cloak may soon be a reality

WASHINGTON - A cloak of invisibility may be common in science fiction but it is not so easy in the real world. New research suggests such a device may be moving closer to reality. Scientists said on ...

Magnetic 'invisibility cloak' hides obstacles within particle streams

Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have developed a method that makes objects on a magnetic field invisible within a ...
Computerworld

‘Cloak’ could make heat, static invisible in electronics

The great unappreciated weakness of invisibility cloaks is that they only make things invisible to human eyes. Or x-ray imagers. Or ultraviolet sensors, infrared image analyzers, echo-location audio ...
EDN

Metamaterial cloak could render buildings ‘invisible’ to earthquakes

PORTLAND, Ore. — Earthquakes can be made to bypass buildings surrounded by seismic invisibility cloaks, claim researchers at the University of Liverpool. “Numerical simulations have been carried out ...