Scientists in the US say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people invisible.
Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley have developed a material that can bend light around 3D objects making them “disappear”.
The materials do not occur naturally but have been created on a nano scale, measured in billionths of a metre.
The team says the principles could one day be scaled up to make invisibility cloaks large enough to hide people.
— more on BBC News
Tags: disappear, human cloaking, invisibility, light bending, microwave, Science, scientists
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August 11th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Wow! that’s amazing!!
August 12th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Read about it the other day. Really hope that we’ll be able to see it within the next decade. But I suspect that it’ll be more for military use initially.
August 12th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Yeah! I want an invisible suit! Think of the mischief!
August 12th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Makes me wish I had a bucket of money and I was still in High School.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:36 am
wow! next time there won’t be any visible cars anymore and more accidents will happen… lol…
August 13th, 2008 at 1:36 am
very interesting, I guess CIA or FBA will be their first client when commercialised
August 13th, 2008 at 1:44 am
interesting.. made me drop some words..
August 13th, 2008 at 8:07 am
its something unbelieveable what if i have this suit……….oh God ..
August 13th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
God make human and all things visible … now scientist want to make things invisible.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
As one of the above commenter said, “Think of the mischief!” It is already creepy enough having to worry about people spying on you with cameras at dressing or public bathrooms, but image if they follow you home? You would never know they are there.
August 14th, 2008 at 8:47 am
i’d sneek into the Vatican’S library and read everything I could lay my invisible hands on!
August 14th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
That is actually pretty scary. Fun if I had one, not so fun for other people to have.
August 14th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
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August 15th, 2008 at 1:13 am
wow! This is pretty interesting. Talk about Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak. hahaha. Scary though when in the hands of the wrong person.
August 16th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Give that guy a wand and it’s Harry Potter!
August 18th, 2008 at 10:29 am
This is pretty cool. But as others have said I’m sure it will be used mostly for military use. It seems like it would not be something they would want released to the public.
August 18th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Think of the mischief? More like “think of the mayhem”.
I think it’s really scary because inevitably it will get into the hands of “the wrong guy”.
August 18th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Can they make one to cloak pop up ads??
August 21st, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Cool Maybe in the future we can have invisible cloth to wear everyday to office he2
August 23rd, 2008 at 3:10 am
wow, quite something there… can’t believe this!
September 7th, 2008 at 8:21 am
cool huh, it works more like harry potter’s magic cloak. Anyway, I drop by this blog everyday to drop but it always say no such user. do you know what’s wrong with the entrecard?
September 12th, 2008 at 12:17 am
This is creepy!
September 13th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
O_O wow.
ps: I doubt id volunteer to wear that suit, unless ive read tons of their research in 10 years, and i know it wont negative affect me
September 14th, 2008 at 1:13 am
Very cool, and a bit scary! Reminds me of those ads for “X-ray glasses” that they ran in comic books when I was a kid.
September 16th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
whoa, this is awesome .. semi-transparent already, huh?
September 25th, 2008 at 11:40 am
That’s trippy!
September 29th, 2008 at 12:38 am
Wowzer…that’s scary. It’s probably already invented and we don’t know it.
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