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New Invisibility Cloak Closer to Working Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> General Technology   
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Harry Potter and Bilbo Baggins, take note: Scientists are a step closer to conquering the "magic" of invisibility. Many earlier cloaking systems turned objects "invisible" only under wavelengths of light that the human eye can't see. Others could conceal only microscopic objects. But the new system, developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Centre, works in visible light and can hide objects. (source: news.nationalgeographic.com)
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I think the only real problem with this is that it could lead to many problems, like use in war, and then robbery, and it would probably get really out of hand...so i don't really think this is the right thing to do at this moment. I think that this is not something that we should really try to find out. |
