Scientists have demonstrated an upgrade of the invisibility cloak. Rather than hiding objects from view, it hides events
The timing could hardly have been better. As the final curtain closes on the Harry Potter franchise, scientists have demonstrated a newfangled upgrade of the invisibility cloak.
A nod to Harry Potter has become the Wilhelm scream of journalists' stories about invisibility cloaks. The main reason, of course, is to help out the picture editor, who understandably struggles to illustrate the invisible. But the boy wizard serves another purpose: a gentle reminder that as factual as the stories are, invisibility cloaks are still in the realms of fiction.
The latest device, which has been shown to work for the first time by Moti Fridman and Alexander Gaeta at Cornell University, goes beyond the more familiar invisibility cloak, which aims to hide objects from view, by making entire events invisible.
Fridman declined to discuss the cloak,...
The timing could hardly have been better. As the final curtain closes on the Harry Potter franchise, scientists have demonstrated a newfangled upgrade of the invisibility cloak.
A nod to Harry Potter has become the Wilhelm scream of journalists' stories about invisibility cloaks. The main reason, of course, is to help out the picture editor, who understandably struggles to illustrate the invisible. But the boy wizard serves another purpose: a gentle reminder that as factual as the stories are, invisibility cloaks are still in the realms of fiction.
The latest device, which has been shown to work for the first time by Moti Fridman and Alexander Gaeta at Cornell University, goes beyond the more familiar invisibility cloak, which aims to hide objects from view, by making entire events invisible.
Fridman declined to discuss the cloak,...
- 7/13/2011
- by Ian Sample
- The Guardian - Film News
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