<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3b613bd7-d468-4fe4-866d-e029448ad54a/C2751FCC-C034-4A56-99C9-C2D0EC5D201F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://technology.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12611&feedId=online-news_rss20" href="http://technology.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12611&feedId=online-news_rss20" style="font-size: 11px;">technology.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12611&feedId=online-news_rss20"><P>While true invisibility cloaks may remain forever a dream, the ability to vanish into an ethereal ray of light is still on the cards.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12611&feedId=online-news_rss20"><P>A device that bends microwaves around an object has been shown to render it <A href="http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19225755.300-invisibility-cloak-is-here-at-last.html">partially invisible</A> (<I>New Scientist</I>, 28 October 2006, p 29), but Min Qiu of the Royal Institute of Technology in Kista, Sweden, and colleagues argue that total invisibility would require the value of some of the cloak's key electrical and magnetic properties to be infinitely large - something that is impossible.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12611&feedId=online-news_rss20"><P>A more realistic goal is to remove the part of the cloak where the values should be infinitely large. They have calculated that the resulting cloak renders someone entirely invisible and <A target="nsarticle" href="http://publish.aps.org/DLO/L02Aug07abs_0075.html">leaves only a thin line of light</A> in the object's place. The results will be published in <I>Physical Review Letters</I>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C2751FCC-C034-4A56-99C9-C2D0EC5D201F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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