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Ukraine unveiled "invisibility cloaks" on Wednesday that will allow its soldiers to hide from Russian forces. The cloaks, created by Brave1 - a defense technology project sponsored by the Ukrainian government - do not show up on Russian thermal imaging cameras and drones, claims Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine's Minister of Digital Transformation. The ingenious invention works by blocking heat radiation, thereby rendering the soldier invisible to the enemy, it's claimed. Ukraine's intelligentsia got to work on the cloaks back in 2015, when it was intended to be used by snipers and Security Service of Ukraine special operations soldiers in the eastern...

Washington -- It's one thing to make an object invisible, like Harry Potter's mythical cloak. But scientists have made an entire event impossible to see. They have invented a time masker. Think of it as an art heist that takes place before your eyes and surveillance cameras. You don't see the thief strolling into the museum, taking the painting down or walking away, but he did. It's not just that the thief is invisible - his whole activity is. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/04/MNB01ML0O6.DTL#ixzz1idxOZQsa

AP Photo/Heather Deal, Cornell University Scientists demonstrate how they have have created a new invisibility technique that doesnt just cloak an object -- like in Harry Potter books and movies -- but masks an entire event by briefly bending the speed of light around an event. In this illustratio, an art thief walks into a museum and steasl a painting without setting off laser beam alarms or even showing up on surveillance cameras. WASHINGTON – It's one thing to make an object invisible, like Harry Potter's mythical cloak. But scientists have made an entire event impossible to see. They have...

A University of Texas scientist is working on developing a technology that would delight Harry Potter fans everywhere--an invisibility cloak. Ali Aliev uses carbon nanotubes--which look like pieces of thread--and then heats them up rapidly until the objects beneath them effectively disappear.You can watch the threads disappear as they are heated up in this video. So how do the threads work? In a paper published in Nanotechnology in June, Aliev explains that the invisibility cloak exploits the "mirage effect." A highway can become so hot that small circles that look like puddles of water appear in the road. That happens...

Researchers theorized how to design a table-top black hole earlier this year. Now two ambitious Chinese scientists have actually built one—using the same materials that made invisibility cloaks possible. The theoretical model for the black hole aped the properties of a cosmological black hole, whose intense gravity bends the surrounding space-time, causing any nearby matter or radiation to follow the warped space-time and spiral inwards. The working Chinese model consists of a cylinder, made up of strips of a special material that increasingly affects electric fields. As rays of light approach the device, they curve inward towards its center, where...

Scientists have developed two light-warping materials that takes them step closer to cloaking devices that could render people invisible. Wormholes could end messy wiring and speed up computers Scientists create the sound of silence Harry Potter invisibility cloak 'within five years' In recent years, several teams around the world have shown with mathematics how a cloaking device could work in principle, by making light waves flow around an object - just as water in a river flows undisturbed around a smooth rock.

Al-Qaida Develops Security Proof Jacket     Oct 29, 2002 Al-Qaida has developed a jacket that can elude security checking procedures practiced at international airports, for application in operations that require blowing up airliners, according to a report by British newspaper, Sunday Times. According to the paper, Al-Qaida developers used a normal wind breaker, and stuffed explosives inside the two layers of the polyester clothing. The source for the paper cited Abu Ata as the developer of this jacket, which has apparently already been tested. Source: Jang.com.pk, Translated By Jihad Unspun