Invisibility not just for sci-fi books anymore?

[Bob Russell]

With all the science fiction readers that visit MobileRead, it's hard to consider this subject off-topic, and it's just too amazing to pass up completely. If you've been watching the science news at all recently, you've heard the remarkable work that is going on.

There are claims that new technology can bring an actual cloaking device into the real world. "Two separate teams of researchers have come up with theories on ways to use experimental 'metamaterials' to cloak an object and hide it from visible light, infrared light, microwaves and perhaps even sonar probes. Their work suggests that science-fiction portrayals of invisibility, such as the cloaking devices used to hide space ships in Star Trek, might be truly possible."

Wow!

From ZDNet.