Friday, November 11, 2011

Harry Potter's Invisibility Cloak Making Strides Toward Reality

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Tonight on Yahoo! I discovered an interesting trending topic sitting in the first place spot. The topic was "invisibility cloak," the mysterious and valuable object in J.K. Rowling's famous Harry Potter series. According to an article by Liz Goodwin on Yahoo! News' The Lookout, a University of Texas Dallas scientist is making progress in creating such technology. The scientist, Ali Aliev, heats carbon nanotubes to create a "mirage effect" which makes the objects behind the nanotubes invisible. Be sure to click on the link below to read the rest of Goodwin's article on this technology and to watch a video of the nanotubes at work.

Texas scientist makes strands of 'invisibility cloak' | The Lookout - Yahoo! News

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