Coming Soon: Cloak Of Invisibility

Leave it to the military to come up with stuff that scares the daylights out of me.

Maybe I should rephrase that:

Leave it to the military to come up with stuff that bends the daylights around me:

Xiang Zhang, the leader of the researchers, said: “In the case of invisibility cloaks or shields, the material would need to curve light waves completely around the object like a river flowing around a rock.” An observer looking at the cloaked object would then see light from behind it – making it seem to disappear.

Substances capable of achieving such feats are known as “meta-materials” and have the power to “grab” electromagnetic radiation and deflect it smoothly. No such material occurs naturally and it is only in the past few years that nano-scale engineering, manipulating matter at the level of atoms and molecules, has advanced sufficiently to give scientists the chance to create them.

Memo to the ancient art of Ninjitsu: you are about to become obsolete.

By the way, before the cloak of invisibility became a scientific phenomenon, it was attempted by the First Earth Battalion as a psychic phenomenon. No joke.