Invisibility cloaks hit the big time

New approach can conceal objects big enough to see

Professor Snape beware — invisibility cloaks aren’t just for the microscopic anymore.

NOW YOU SEE ‘EM A piece of pink paper vanishes under a new invisibility cloak developed by MIT researchers. Baile Zhang and G. Barbastathis/SMART Centre

Using natural crystals, two independent research teams have designed “carpet cloaks” that can abracadabra 3-D objects as big as an ant or a grain of sand seemingly into nothing.