This came up in a thread that I started at B77.
Real personal invisibility is being worked on by the Department of Defense and others.
I saw a recent article on CNN: Science reveals secrets of invisibility
Here is a link to an older article from Wired:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.0 ... le_pr.html
And an image of the state of the art (note the men walking behind the girl wearing the coat):
I wonder if this is a good thing? Very cool.
Imagine if you could package up the necessary circuitry in a convenient package--say the size of a ring...?
* precious, we wants it *
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New developments on real-world invisibility:
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/475843
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