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Invisibility
Rob Bricken
We would all love to own an invisibility cloak. But new research suggests that if they do ever exist they won’t be perfect: They will be more like Predator, less like Harry Potter.
If you’re a non-magical being, you might think your chances of becoming invisible are slim to nil. But don’t jump to conclusions just yet: Researchers are now claiming to have developed a portable system that can make small objects, like your keys or pet lizard, disappear from sight.
The concept of “digital metamaterials” – a simple way of designing metamaterials with bizarre optical properties that could hasten the development of devices such as invisibility cloaks and superlenses – is reported in a paper published in Nature Materials.
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