'Invisibility Cloak' Created Using Crystals

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 4, 2011 @04:48AM from the keep-this-discovery-away-from-the-klingons dept.

Zothecula writes "The quest to build a working 'invisibility cloak' generally focuses on the use of metamaterials – artificially engineered materials with a negative refractive index that have already been used to render microscopic objects invisible in specific wavelengths of light. Now, using naturally occurring crystals rather than metamaterials, two research teams working independently have demonstrated technology that can cloak larger objects in the broad range of wavelengths visible to the human eye. PDFs of the two similarly named research papers are available through arXiv.org."

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Re:Another day... by bobbinspenguin · 2011-02-04 04:54 · Score: 2, Funny

I've not seen the others
One cheat code down by Anonymous Coward · 2011-02-04 04:56 · Score: 2, Funny

Now to work on "God Mode"
This thread is worthless without pics by jfengel · 2011-02-04 05:10 · Score: 4, Funny

Here's one:
Stupid harry potter. by RyuuzakiTetsuya · 2011-02-04 05:11 · Score: 3, Funny

screw the invisibility cloak! Give me Stealth Camouflage!

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Re:I dunno by Shikaku · 2011-02-04 05:26 · Score: 3, Funny

I can't point out what's so exciting because I can't see it, duh!