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I for one welcome our invisible overlords

Looks like we’ll get to increase our armor class:

The idea of a cloak of invisibility that hides objects from view has long been confined to the more improbable reaches of science fiction. But electronic engineers have now come up with a way to make one.

Andrea Alù and Nader Engheta of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia say that a ‘plasmonic cover’ could render objects “nearly invisible to an observer”. Their idea remains just a proposal at this stage, but it doesn’t obviously violate any laws of physics.

I’m still holding out for elven mail and a bag of, uhm, holding.

2 Responses to “I for one welcome our invisible overlords”

  1. Barry Says:

    You should’ve seen me trying to explain the concept of a Portable Hole to my kids the other day…

  2. lobbygow Says:

    Zero charisma! Zero charisma!

    Seriously, is this the technology that simply projects a picture of what is behind the shield into thousands of diodes? I saw a demonstration of that on TV about 6 years ago. I wouldn’t work if the target was looking for invaders/pursuers, but if you weren’t, it wouldbe pretty effective.

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