Can Magnets Bend Light for Invisibility Cloaks?

[ImAnEngineer]

If you want an invisibility cloak, what we need is a flexible high resolution screen and a lot of sensors. The image that is displayed is measured by the sensors on the other side of the cloak. This would be hard to realize as there are no flexible screens yet (although I've heard they're working on it), but it sounds like cool sci-fi :P .

 

[Born2bwire]

If you want an invisibility cloak, what we need is a flexible high resolution screen and a lot of sensors. The image that is displayed is measured by the sensors on the other side of the cloak. This would be hard to realize as there are no flexible screens yet (although I've heard they're working on it), but it sounds like cool sci-fi :P .

Except that setup still casts a shadow and will reflect and diffract electromagnetic waves. The crude solutions they have come up with using metamaterials are true invisibility cloaks.