invisibility is it possible?

[gh0st]

...The key to that possibility is the development of increasingly complex metamaterials -- manmade composites engineered on a nano scale with properties entirely different to anything found in nature... fragment: CNN

http://articles.cnn.com/2006-08-09/tech/feature.invisibility_1_invisibility-bends-light?_s=PM:TECH



NOW YOU SEE IT Duke researchers built a simplified version of their cloaking device out of copper rings and wires patterned onto fiberglass sheets and demonstrated that it successfully diverted microwaves. (source: The New York times)

complete article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/12/science/12invis.html?ex=1182744000&en=5897f9ee231f8457&ei=5070

I like stuff about nanotechnollogy and this my favorite 

[Jath]

i didn't really read the article (too drunk to read long articles right now) but physic will back up the theory. light does not travel in a straight line and bending light around a object can be explained by physics.

i think. i once had a very long conversation about this at a hacker space with some professors and some random other guy from MIT (i was really stoned and the one guy was a cyborg. no joke either he really did have a wearable computer and some other really crazy stuff like a HD web cam mounted to his glasses  that was streaming live to some server)

[Huntondoom]

invisibility is possible, since they found a certain material that has a negative light refraction

[W1z]

What is this world leading too... 

[atsu]

My brother said he has read an article that invisibility is possible already. Not with large objects YET. He said something about like taking control of light waves that are invisible to the human eye or something like that.