I’ve written about this before, albeit a few year ago. But now scientists are much closer to a real working prototype that can cloak or hide 3 dimensional objects. In theory (i.e. on paper) it’s totally practical to implement, when you think about it. All you really need to accomplish is a real time image of what’s beyond the object and present it accordingly on the ‘cloaking material’. In the past, folks have used a projector like system, which captures what is beyond the object and displays it on its surface.

The complete details about the cloaking material, which uses a mixture of metal and circuit boards such as ceramic, Teflon and fiber composite, will be detailed in the journals of Nature and Science next week.

The pic is for demo purposes only

Check the video from a few years ago, that I originally wrote about, after the ‘leap’

[ABCNews]