Cloak of invisibility takes a step forward

[gunslingingbird]

WASHINGTON – From Grimm's fairy tales to Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility has played a major role in fiction. Now scientists have taken a small but important new step toward making it reality.

Researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology report they were able to cloak a tiny bump in a layer of gold, preventing its detection at nearly visible infrared frequencies.

Their cloaking device also worked in three dimensions, while previously developed cloaks worked in two dimensions, lead researcher Tolga Ergin said.

The cloak is a structure of crystals with air spaces in between, sort of like a woodpile, that bends light, hiding the bump in the gold later beneath, the researchers reported in Thursday's online edition of the journal Science.

What I'd like to know is how long before they make a (+20,+20) [+10] Two-handed Elven Sword of Slaying {+5 speed}. :1orglaugh

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[Petra]

It'll take awhile before they can get stats like that. First they have to get to the Epic levels in order to get the feats to make a spell that has that type of stats. Then they have to wait to level enough to get the feat that allows them to use items with that type of bonus. :1orglaugh

 

[Supafly]

Ah, that Elven Sword type of weaponry and armour is handled by the irish branch.

They managed a +1/+2 sword, but they sadly celebrated very hard at the pub down the street and as I understand, some bugger must have left it there and they can't remember who that was and what exactly happened afterwards that night

So now they are working on a Scroll of Remembrace :rofl:

 

[StanScratch]

I made one. Can't find it.

 

[Petra]

Ah, that Elven Sword type of weaponry and armour is handled by the irish branch.

They managed a +1/+2 sword, but they sadly celebrated very hard at the pub down the street and as I understand, some bugger must have left it there and they can't remember who that was and what exactly happened afterwards that night

So now they are working on a Scroll of Remembrace :rofl:

Pfft...obviously the rogue snuck in and took it while they were distracted by their brew. Unfortunatly, the rogue forgot to take a level of "use magic device" and blew himself up trying to activate it.

 

[Supafly]

I made one. Can't find it.

Look under Will E.'s bed :rofl: