SKIRMISHER

Remember Metamaterials, which were supposedly being used in creating a completely non-bullshit “invisibility cloak”?

Scientists working on it are apparently achieving something:

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time they were able to cloak three-dimensional objects using artificially engineered materials that redirect light around the objects.

Previously, they only have been able to cloak very thin two-dimensional objects.

The findings, by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are to be released later this week in the journals Nature and Science.

The new work moves scientists a step closer to hiding people and objects from visible light, which could have broad applications, including military ones.

People can see objects because they scatter the light that strikes them, reflecting some of it back to the eye.

Cloaking uses materials, known as metamaterials, to deflect radar, light or other waves around an object.

Metamaterials are mixtures of metal and circuit board materials such as ceramic, Teflon or fibre composite

Meanwhile, other non-scientist folks have succeeded in dealing with invisibility. Such as:

Pope Benedict XI [above] presents to the stoned crowds hanging out at St Peter’s grounds the first invisible boy the Catholic Church ever succeeded inventing through sheer hardcore prayer.

Still in Rome, an invisible coin-asker.

Stumble it!