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True Invisibility Remains Elusive

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Gary Boas, Contributing Editor, [email protected]

But research moves toward practical applications of cloaking technology. Invisibility cloaks have long captured our imaginations, whether actual cloaks imbued with magical powers – see the Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter series – or the conceptually related “cloaking technology” found everywhere in science fiction and high-tech action movies. The latter often come with a perfectly plausible, if not yet perfectly realized, explanation of how they might work. To wit: Large arrays of tiny cameras on one side of an object (or person, or Aston Martin...Read full article

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    Published: August 2012
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