How to become Invisible..

A cloaking illusion. Technology developed by Susumu Tachi in Japan. Consists of a very reflective material capable of displaying a 3d image. The cloak is made off reflective bead material which bends the light. The light that is supposed to be reflected right back at the object is instead bending to the front of the cloak which shoots it at the person looking which makes the illusion of you looking through the person.





Monday's big news that the highly respected (and, when you think about it, rather boastfully named) journals Science and Nature will publish two separate papers this week on new advances in cloaking technology is exciting stuff for anyone who, like me, believes steadfastly in the promise of the future. But even futurists have to take a double shot of reality and a pint of skepticism when we see a headline like "Science Close to Unveiling Invisible Man." The research teams from the University of California at Berkeley's Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center are, indeed, talking about the scientific study of making stuff disappear.

The future, however, arrives with each new day, and this new research out of California brings us closer than we've ever been to disappearing. The Potter Pattern, if you will, has a lot to do with a new round of metamaterials (those made of nanostructures smaller than the wavelengths of light that they deflect) that now are capable of dealing with visible light. Metamaterials work because they don't reflect or absorb light. Instead, they allow light to bend around a three-dimensional object and come out the other side—effectively making everything in between invisible.