How scientists are creating real-life invisibility cloaks

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Max Levy |

TED-Ed

• December 2024

A spy presses a button on their suit and blinks out of sight. A wizard wraps himself in a cloak and disappears. A star pilot flicks a switch, and their ship vanishes into space. Invisibility is one of the most tantalizing powers in fiction, spanning all kinds of stories. But could this fantasy ever become a reality? Max G. Levy digs into the technologies that could make invisibility possible. [Directed by Michalis Kalopaidis, Zedem Media, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Manolis Manoli].