Two invisibility cloak materials developed

Telegraoh.co.uk ^ | 11/08/2008 | Roger Highfield, Science Editor

[An Old Man]

Scientists have developed two light-warping materials that takes them step closer to cloaking devices that could render people invisible.

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In recent years, several teams around the world have shown with mathematics how a cloaking device could work in principle, by making light waves flow around an object - just as water in a river flows undisturbed around a smooth rock.

[An Old Man]

"Now two such materials have been developed by Prof Xiang Zhang and colleagues at the University of California in Berkeley, who will outline the advances in the journals Nature and Science."

Have fun with this one!

[McKayopectate]

So we DON’T need to steal it from the Romulans in the future!

[nhoward14]

What is the point of a cloaking device when we still don’t have warp capability?

[Conspiracy Guy]

I have an invisibility cloak. But I can’t find it.

[avacado]

In this picture on the road there is a man wearing the materials. If you look hard enough you can see him.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Now two such materials have been developed by Prof Xiang Zhang and colleagues..."

Only two materials?!?! I've got at least 15 fully functional invisibility cloaks hanging on hooks in my closet.

[kbennkc]

Sounds like it could make research grants disappear faster than cold fusion .

[Conspiracy Guy]

Check the labels. One of them may be mine.

[weegee]

Wormholes could end messy wiring and speed up computers

Why not use them to solve our transportation problems?

[weegee]

Give new meaning to the “watch your hat and coat” signs.

[Hazwaste]

I’m wearing invisible clothes right now, so I’m getting a kick out of these replies.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Check the labels. One of them may be mine."

That's where that smell is coming from. You leave some anchovies in the pocket?

[weegee]

I don’t see the man in the invisibility cloak but I do spot the man disguised as a larch.

[martin_fierro]

Here's the actual fabric.

[weegee]

Obama has one on order already. The emperor needs new clothes.

[Hazwaste]

Why not use them to solve our transportation problems?

Because we aren't worms. And worms don't like to commute.

[SkyDancer]

A cloak? Big deal - I can make the Starship Enterprise invisible.

James T. Kirk

Really? Better the mind than a ship.

The Shadow.

[weegee]

Scientists create the sound of silence

Simon & Garfunkle did it first.

[avacado]

Good one!

[martin_fierro]

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