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Monday, August 11, 2008

Cloaking Device On!

This is simultaneously awesome and horrifying. Scientists at UC Berkeley will publish experiments in the journals Nature and Science showing that hey have successfully made three-dimensional objects invisible using light-bending metamaterials composed of metal and composites. This is the first step in creating a kind of invisibility suit that prevents light from reflecting off of a person. The military applications are self-evident. Soon countries the world over will be greeting us as liberators...but they have to find us first! More details here.

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