Shape of things to comeFirst true invisibility cloak created

Published 3 October 2007

University of Maryland researchers develop first true invisibility cloak; it is still small — well, at 10 micrometres in diameter, very small — and works only in two dimensions, but shows that true invisibility is practicable

We have written about invisibility cloaks before, but it appears that the world’s first true invisibility cloak — that is, a device capable of hiding an object in the visible spectrum -