Cloak of invisibility
Particle board is possibly the geekiest-cool material known to man. Seriously. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are a step closer to developing metamaterials that could render people invisible. Invisible!
Hm. Just to the human eye, or all seeing creatures? The article omitted this important detail. Invisibility is awesome but not reliable if you have a line dogs tailing you. Wait – won’t they smell you and chase you anyway? And what happens if you get caught in the rain – do you make a clear outline like Kevin Bacon did in the trashy Hollow Man? Then there’s the inevitable wearing off, where you wind up naked in a crowded room. Plus the invisible man always winds up mad. Like a hatter. Have Zhang and company taken all this into account?
They probably watch far less B movies than I do.