Hiding behind a life-sized negative of yourself won’t actually turn you invisible. But researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have figured out how to use that same idea to make real-world objects vanish when shot with microwave energy.
Cloaking device prototypes are usually either pipe dreams or poorly executed, but this experiment out of UT Dallas is incredible. Utilising the same principle behind a mirage, Danger Room reports, the carbon nanotube plate completely vanishes at a button press.
