I'm surprised this hasn't been posted yet:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cloak_of_invisibility

Only a couple more years until I can go be a perv in the girls locker-room...

Are they working on transporting too?

There are times when I'd like to have lunch in the French Quarter and be back by 2pm for a meeting.

Can somebody make that happen please?

Here's the link (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/314/5798/403?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=invisibility&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT) to the Science website page about it.


Alas, even if invisibility proves possible, it may not work the way it does in the movies. For example, a cloaking device would be useless for spying, Pendry says. "Nobody can see you in there, but of course you can't see them, either." Keeping track of your always-invisible device might be a pain, too.
That's the last paragraph of the article. It seems short-sighted comming from the guy who just took the time to calculate how to make something invisible (at least, to microwaves).

"We have built an artificial mirage that can hide something from would-be observers in any direction," said cloak designer David Schurig, a research associate in Duke University's electrical and computer engineering department.

Roy Williams is about to cry foul, as Coach K designs his Romulin Triangle Offense.

im surprised this is the 'first' cloaking... there was an issue of national geographic about four years ago where they had a picture of an ivisibility suit being developed by the military. the picture had a soldier standing in front of a brick wall and actually looked better than the alien in 'predator'. the main article was about textiles, and how modern technology is taking them in new directions.


Are they working on transporting too?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/10/04/teleportation.reut/index.html

also, scientists in australia successfully teleported an atom about a year ago.

Eek, I meant to say "teleporting" not "transporting".

What about "trainspotting"?