Scientists haverevealedthey have developed a minuscule " invisibility cloak "   that renders tiny objective impossible to see . Importantly , the microscopical design is scalable , meaning it could be practice to thing that are n’t , you know , the sizing of a bacterium .

The research was write in the journalScienceand conducted by scientists from the   U.S. Department of Energy ’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   and the University of California , Berkeley . They create a tiny “ skin cloak ” of goldnanoantennas , which was just 80 nanometer thickheaded . The cloak was designed to chew over loose moving ridge in such a way that an object it covers appears flat .

When placed over an irregularly shaped microscopical aim , about the sizing of   a few biologic jail cell ,   the cloak reflected incoming flushed   lighter other than at various locations , depending on how articulate their feature and gibbousness   were . This caused the object   to   seem savourless , rather than its   original condition , as the brightness was reflected off the cloak   like a mirror .

" This is the first clock time a 3D physical object of arbitrary contour has been cloaked from visible brightness level , " read lead author Xiang Zhang of Berkeley Lab in astatement .

Above is a video of the cloak in action . Berkeley Laboratory .

Of course , this does think that it is not a " true "   invisibility cloak – you are not seeing through an object , rather it just look flat . But it is still able-bodied to hide an object from eyeshot , hence making it invisible in one sense .

The biggest breakthrough is that   it is " easy to design and implement , and is potentially scalable for hiding macroscopic [ large ] objects,“addedZheng . For model , if worn on vesture , the technology might be able to   make a beer abdomen front flatter . Alternatively , a case mask could hide pimples and wrinkle from position . " you may imagine if someone has a fat belly , like me , and he need to take care nice , he could put this layer on and it will depend like a six face pack , " he   toldthe Guardian .

Incredible . You ’re all wizards , Berkeley . Oh crap .