Invisibility Cloak

         Many people have seen the popular Harry Potter movies and wondered about Harry’s invisibility cloak. Most of the people who watched the movie wrote the reality of an invisibility cloak off as mere fantasy. But hold the phone, Japanese scientists have begun to create prototypes of an invisibility cloak. Susumu Tachi, a professor at the University of Tokyo, has created a garment that uses beads to project images using cameras in the back of the garment. So the cameras capture an image from the back to reflect onto the front of the garment and vice versa. Although the cloak has flaws, there is a lot of potential for future improvements.

         In education, an invisibility cloak would hinder any progress made in recent years. Students would use the invisibility cloak for purposes that could be very harmful. Students would harm eachother (or any children who remained visible), pull pranks on the teachers, leave the school unexcused, and wander into areas where they do not belong (i.e. the bathroom of the opposite gender).      

 

 

 

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread58663/pg1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susumu_Tachi

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/2777111.stm

http://www.vrsj.org/ic-at/ICAT2004/programs1.asp

http://patdollard.com/2008/12/move-over-harry-potter-berkley-invents-invisibility-cloak/

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