Articles tagged "cloaking"

But will this technology ever make it into the hands internet users?

Ah, invisibility. To simply disappear one's self is sort of _the_ recurring superpower dream, really - right up there with flight, or X-ray vision. "It just appeals to your imagination," says David R. Smith, a cloaking researcher at Duke University.

Invisibility is one of the oldest concepts in our mythology. Years before Harry Potter put on his cloak or Tom Cruise pranced behind an invisibility tarp, Plato recounted the myth of the ring of Gyges, a poor and honest shepherd who discovers a ring