Tag: INVISIBILITY

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, ...

So you may be able to earn college credit learning to speak Klingon, and you can order yourself replicas of many bits of Klingon weaponry. But even though you may wish it otherwise, you have to face facts: Klingons are not real. That other bane of the Starfleet's existence, the cloaking shield, isn't real either. That said, it seems we may be getting closer to invisibility becoming a reality, ...

Ever since being called to the blackboard to spell "m-o-r-t-i-f-i-e-d" and pitching a pre-pubescent tent in front of your entire second grade class, the prospect of "going ghost" (i.e. turning invisible) has held quite an appeal. Believe it or not, science has made some progress in the quest for invisibility. In light of the newest Harry Potter release, the fine people at gizmowatch have seen ...