Muggles Develop Invisibility Cloak!

I read today that some Muggles over at Duke University are in the midst of developing a real "invisibility Cloak" ala Harry Potter...

Such a cloak could hide any object so well that observers would be totally unaware of its presence, according to the researchers. In principle, their invisibility cloak could be realized with exotic artificial composite materials called "metamaterials," they said. "The cloak would act like you've opened up a hole in space," said David R. Smith, Augustine Scholar and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke's Pratt School. "All light or other electromagnetic waves are swept around the area, guided by the metamaterial to emerge on the other side as if they had passed through an empty volume of space."

And then I found this link on one of my favorite sites, HowStuffWorks.com, describing how Invisibility Cloaks work... including a picture of a real one in action, AVAILABLE TODAY, that uses optical-camouflage technology developed by scientists at the University of Tokyo.

Sweet. So not only do our poor school teachers have to deal with cell phones in class - - someday they may have to deal with invisibility cloaks!

Not bad, for a bunch of muggles, eh?