Invisibility is no longer just a topic of fantasy or science fiction; several companies around the world have developed technologies to make it a reality. Some use a combination of cameras and digital ...
Science and fiction always had a chicken and egg relationship: it’s hard to tell which one informs the other. Take invisibility, a fantastical notion brought into popular culture first by HG Wells’ ...
(via TEDEd) A spy presses a button on their suit and blinks out of sight. A wizard wraps himself in a cloak and disappears. A star pilot flicks a switch, and their ship vanishes into space.
Remember the Invisibility Shield that launched on Kickstarter just over two years ago? The British startup Invisibility Shield Co’s eye-tricking gizmo, which is roughly as flat as a piece of cardboard ...
Leafhoppers are the only species that secrete brochosomes: rare nanoparticles with invisibility properties. But for the first time, a group of scientists has created their own synthetic brochosomes.
In the Harry Potter books and movies, the young wizard is gifted with a remarkable cloak. The user who wears it becomes invisible, able to slip out of sticky situations and eavesdrop on evildoers, ...