An invisibility cloak that can hide an arbitrary object external to the cloak itself has not been devised before. In this Letter, we introduce a novel way to design a remote cloaking device that ...

WATCH BELOW: Researchers create Harry Potter-inspired ‘invisibility cloak’ For example, a blue object reflects blue light waves and absorbs everything else. The object looks blue to the human ...

An invisibly cloak would work by 'grabbing hold' of light waves and making them flow ... Broadband invisibility clearly is blue-skies research,' said Prof Leonhardt. 'I will try my best to explore ...

“The experimental demonstration at blue, green and red light looks impressive,” says Steven Cummer, an electrical engineer at Duke University. The holey pattern in the sponge-like cloak curves ...

The cloak works by bending light around an object in the centre of a specially-designed glass construction to make it invisible to a viewer. The video of the disappearing animals had baffled some ...

Further footage shows the lower half of a cat disappear as it steps inside a cloak placed on a table. The device uses thing panels of glass to make objects invisible by bending light around them.

That cloak worked only for light of a specific ... have been used to hide centimetre-size objects under red, green and blue light (Physical Review Letters, vol 106, p 033901).