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 Invisibility cloaks, disappear! There's a new transforming technology
out there - though, getting your hands on it might be a bit tricky, as
seen in this short video.
Scientists are experimenting with pentamode metamaterials, 3D hexagonal
polymer lattices built like honeycombs. The rods in the honeycomb,
however, are not uniform: they are wider at the middle than at the ends.
The elastomechanical metamaterial
is therefore difficult to compress but easy to shift, making it behave
more like a fluid than a solid. The material actually makes the object
it is cloaking "unfeelable" to the touch and even to some scientific
instruments.
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