Purdue researchers concoct new invisibility cloak, plan Walmart ...

Courtesy Engadget  Fri, 05/22/2009 - 08:10

Hate to say it, but we're beyond the point of hope here.

We just won't ever, ever see a real-deal invisibility cloak during our relatively brief stint on Earth.

That said, researchers at Purdue University are doing their best to prove us wrong, recently developing a new approach to cloaking that is supposedly "simple to manufacture." Unlike traditional invisibility cloaks, which rely on exotic metamaterials that demand complex nanofabrication, this version utilizes a far simpler design...

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