Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and Imperial College London have developed a technology to actually make objects appear invisible! A network of photonic crystals is layed over the object and renders it invisible by dispersing the light that falls on it and scatters it away. "We put an object under a microscopic structure, a little like a reflective carpet," said Nicholas Stenger, one of the researchers who worked on the project. The scientists so far have only done this on a microscopic scale, making a bump on a piece of gold disappear. This is a major breakthrough in science and has thousands of applications - one of them being the disconcerting cloaking of soldiers and weapons. Another, safer application would be for that of design. Imagine a 3 dimensional sculpture that you couldn't see, but had to feel with your hands. Although this is exciting, with the current technology, it is not yet in our capability to reproduce this on a large scale. Check out the link.
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