Your grandkids may have an invisibility cloak
Researchers at UC Berkeley developed a cool new kind of material. One that can bend light around objects, making them seem to disappear. Wicked! This is every Harry Potter fan’s dream, no?
Right now what they’ve created is super tiny – nano scale. But the principle behind it could eventually be scaled up big enough to hide larger objects. Like people.
How long before military peeps are after this? And really, while the concept is cool, how freaky would that be? You’d be bumping into objects, tripping over things, and possibly even crashing into stuff, too.
I have a distinct feeling that something like this is going to be heavily regulated if it ever gets off the ground.
The science nerd in me thinks, “Hey, that’s so cool!” and the cynic in me thinks something like this has the potential to be abused. Or available to only the super-rich. So, which do you think we’ll have first: flying cars (à la George Jetson) or invisibility cloaks (similar to Harry Potter)?
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