The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany has reported success in their development of a three-dimensional cloaking device, an improvement over the previous implementation of a 2D device. Researchers were able to hide a miniscule bump — 0.00004 inch high and 0.0005 inch across — on a bar of gold, rendering it undetectable to infrared light frequencies. While this may seem so small as to be meaningless, lead researcher Tolga Ergin said ” … it is very seldom that one can foretell what practical applications might arise out of a field of fundamental research.”
These things always start small. I remember the time I was walking around with an open jar of peanut butter in one hand and a chocolate bar in the other. I accidentally stumbled, the two were introduced, and five years later, the microwave oven was born. True story.
Now, you may think that we’re decades away from a true cloaking device, under which your most depraved “Hollow Man” fantasies might be enacted, but think about it: how do you know you’re not looking at something invisible right now? You don’t. There might be a whole platoon of government soldiers in your room with you right this very moment, and you’d never know. For that matter, how do we know we aren’t being abducted by aliens all the time, but are being kept from remembering it because of their memory erasure rays? Dude, this thing goes deep. Get Fox Mulder on the line, stat.
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