Invisibility shield appears possible

A UC Berkeley team finds materials that bend light around an object -- a big step toward a cloaking device. The technology could also be used as a 'super lens' to make smaller computer chips. Long the stuff of fantasy, practical invisibility shields have been brought a step closer to reality by researchers who say they have engineered materials that can hide an object by bending ordinary light like balloon animals at a circus.

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