Invisibility cloak using calcite demonstrated

[gary]

Researchers at MIT and the University of Birmingham have independently
published two different papers, one in Physical Review Letters and the other in
Nature Communications, where they have shown relatively large objects can be
rendered invisible to the naked eye using the material calcite.

BBC News item here including video -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12338447

Article in Discover Magazine here (free) -
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/02/02/for-a-low-cost-invisibility-cloak-physicists-look-to-crystals/

Paper in Nature Communications here (subscription only but abstract available) -
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v2/n2/full/ncomms1176.html



Science News article here -
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/69415/description/Invisibility_cloaks_hit_the_big_tim e

[supernova1965]

While searching for a video that I could download the video in the link doesn't work with Video Download helper :sadeyes: I noticed that this IIS thread came 2nd above the BBC story we must be getting some street cred for searches.:thumbsup::D

[wavelandscott]

Am I the only one who sees the humour in not being able to see a video on a cloaking device...

[floyd_2]

I'm suspicious that some of my tools might be under an invisibility cloak somewhere in my house. Pity the lawn mower isn't under it too!

Dean

[Waxing_Gibbous]

I suspect you could download the video but not see it.