Achieving invisibility is no longer a matter of science fiction. Engineers from the Universities of Stanford and Pennsylvania (USA) have created an invisible layer of silicon and gold using the technology of 'plasmonic camouflage'. The new device will serve, among other things, to improve the quality of photographs from digital cameras and other advanced imaging systems.
Mathematicians from the University of Manchester are working on the theory of invisibility cloaks to develop covers that protect buildings and structures from vibrations and natural disasters such as earthquakes. As announced by William Parnell and his colleagues in the journal 'Proceedings of the Royal Society A', camouflaging certain components of structures with pressure rubber would allow large seismic waves not to "see" the building and "pass by", so that this would not suffer any damage.
Scientists at St Andrews University (Scotland) have developed a new flexible and intelligent material called Metaflex that allows us to manipulate the behavior of light and could bring us one step closer to the long-awaited dream of creating an invisibility suit.
Two teams of researchers, at the University of California at Berkeley and at Cornell University in New York, have designed "invisibility mats" that visually hide the presence of any object that is placed under them.
Scientists from the University of California (Berkeley) and Cornell University have created miniature invisibility cloaks that could emulate that of Harry Potter himself.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
