Scientists create one of the Deathly Hallows.

It’s about time that scientists start doing something important with all that money. Sure, cures for cancer and stem cell research are all fine and dandy, but I fail to see how Christopher Reeve’s ability to walk has anything to do with my right to hide in the shower room at the gym unnoticed. Oh you think that’s sick? I will tell you what’s sick. All of you well built and in shape douche bags walking around making me feel bad about my body and plantain shaped man boobs. If I lack the will to get to the gym every night to alter my body to a form more visually pleasing, is it so wrong for me to replace exercise with perversity while lurking in the darkness of the 24 Hour fitness steam room?

You know what? Change of subject… I can feel several hundred people judging me at once.

Scientists have been working on this for a while and every few months it appears in the news again as if it was something we hadn’t heard of. Oddly enough, there is always a Harry Potter invisibility cloak included in these news reports. I refuse to break that trend.

All of this scientific study is about to come to a .... head....

The idea centres on the use of a ‘metamaterial’ surface, which tricks the eye into thinking an item is not there by bending light away as it reflects from the source.

Metamaterials are created by altering the internal structure of existing materials using complex nanoscale patterns to change their properties.Imperial College London and the University of Southampton have been awarded the grant from The Leverhulme Trust for further research in the field.

At present objects can be made invisible to larger wavelengths such as radar but not to smaller wavelengths like light.

Scientists hope to create materials which force light to flow around the object masking it from the human eye and essentially making it invisible.

Surfaces can be made to manipulate all forms of radiation such as light, microwaves and terahertz radiation leading to potential uses in medicine, security and data communications.

Metamaterials could also be used to build a “perfect lens” microscope to view particles smaller than the wavelength of light used to view them.

Read the entire article at The Telegraph.