YeinJee's Asian Blog » UC Berkeley http://yeinjee.com Asian culture, lifestyle, food, travel, celebrity and entertainment. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:21:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Invisible cloak is not just a dream http://yeinjee.com/2008/invisible-cloak-is-not-just-a-dream/ http://yeinjee.com/2008/invisible-cloak-is-not-just-a-dream/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:04:57 +0000 Yein Jee http://yeinjee.com/?p=2108 Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley have developed a material that can bend light around 3D objects making them ‘disappear’.

The materials do not occur naturally but have been created on a nano scale, measured in billionths of a metre. The team says the principles could one day be scaled up to make invisibility cloaks large enough to hide people. [more on BBC]

Harry Potter’s fans must be so excited about the news. I am a bit worried on contrary, sometimes I just feel that the technology developments are a bit overwhelming to handle… I think I am getting old.

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