[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Invented by the Clingons.

[ClearCase_guy]

The major limitation is that the current design can only bend the light of a single wave-length at a time, and does not work with the entire frequency range of the visible spectrum.

"How to create a design that works for all colours of visible light at the same time will be a big technical challenge, but we believe it's possible," Professor Shalaev said. "In principle, it's doable."

It sounds neat, amd I'm happy to see the advance.

But the headline writer's definition of "close" is not what I would call "close".

[DogBarkTree]

Perhaps spittin Nancy can take a fashion suggestion.

[Tenacious 1]

It sounds like this technology needs to be classified as it would seem to rendor some of our laser guided military munitions useless.

It is however, cool.

[AppyPappy]

I have one of these

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[secretagent]

I’ll believe it when I don’t see it.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Just what we need. An invisible “aeroplane”.

Anybody seen Wonder Woman lately?

[Red Badger]

Bert did it on Soap in the late 70's.........

[FrankR]

I had one of those cloaks...but I dropped it two years ago, and can’t find it anywhere...

[dartuser]

Totally irrelevant ... Dr. Quest and Race Bannon will simply strap on their jet packs and drop paint filled baggies on these so-called invisible planes.

[Reaganesque]

I could shield a spacecraft from x-rays and gamma rays.

[GunnyHartman]

We can sell that technology to the Chinese for campaign contributions that will make us a shoe-in in '08.

[Old Professer]

I’ll take one mother-in-law XL and one nosy-neighbor XXXL.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

Think of the possibilities for the burka business. All you’d see coming down the street is two eyes. WOW! I like it. There are many, many days, especially when child was younger, that I would have loved to have had a cloaking device. “Mommy, Mommy, where are you?!” Just then a voice out of nowhere says, “I told you no cookies before supper!” Kid immediately puts the lid back on the cookie jar and says, “Okay, God.” So many possibilities.

[Rick_Michael]

Hillary couldn't get invisible fast enough.

[Aikonaa]

Somebody’s looking for a huge research grant. ‘Yes, invisibility is just around the corner — just give me $50 million and I’ll do it’.

[Paul Ross]

Wonder how long it will take Chi-Comm espionage to steal all the science, the prototype, and the schematics for all our deployable hardware...

I would give them, oh, a few days before the first several squadrons of Chinese femme fatales to show up at Purdue seeking to be grad students working for the professors...

[Señor Zorro]

It bugs me when they refer to this as a “Harry Potter-style” invisibility cloak. Tales of exactly that sort of thing have been existent for millenia, the one that pops to mind first is Siegfried’s cloud cloak in the Niebelungenlied.

[Eye of Unk]

Philidelphia Experiment

During WW2 it was to cloak ships, some say it worked.