Fiber Nation | Tales of Textiles, Craft, and Culture

What does it take to disappear? Scientists have worked on this for decades, and so-called cloaking technology is commonly used on fighter jets. But here’s where things get wild: recent advances at several universities have created flexible surfaces capable of bending light around objects. Put simply, these surfaces trick your eyes into not seeing them. It’s a scientific cloak of invisibility. It might sound like Harry Potter hocus pocus, but it’s entirely possible, maybe in the next decade, to have clothing that makes the wearer invisible. Even if there’s no such thing as magic, invisible sheep. Listen to the Episode…