Tag: INVISIBILITYCLOAK

Last spring, Imperial College London successfully demonstrated, for the first time, an effective three-dimensional invisibility cloak. The system of interwoven rods actually masked a minuscule "bump," but scientists expressed uncertainty about completely hiding larger, visible objects. Now, less than a year later, that hypothetical scenario has become a reality. The researchers have ...

Researchers at London's Imperial College recently received a generous grant of $8.1 million to fund the development of an invisibility suit. While various international scientists have been developing invisibility tech and filing patents on camouflaging material since World War II, the Imperial College coalition believes that these decades of work may actually soon come to fruition. The ...

There has been plenty of research into cloaking devices, but while scientists are still working their way towards the visible light spectrum they seem to be having the best luck with microwaves. Most recently, a new metamaterial made from over 10,000 individual pieces of fiberglass has been used to cloak a bump on a flat mirrored surface -- the material prevents microwaves from being scattered, ...