Journal #8, October 19

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1078397/Disappearing-act-The-invisibility-cloak-ready-years.html
http://science.howstuffworks.com/invisibility-cloak.htm (extra research)

The invisibility cloak is what most of the world first learned about from Harry Potter that he used to creep out of Hogwarts, but really developing this invisibility cloak. Instead of using magic like Harry Potter researchers from Purdue University are using 'nanotechnology' and 'metamaterials' along with Einstein’s theory of general relativity. It now seems that this cloak is becoming a reality in five years. The way that the cloak will work it bends light around itself like the flow of water around a stone, which would make both the electromagnetic cloak and the object inside hidden. Professor Vladminr Shalaev is one of the researchers involve with the cloak and he said, " The whole idea behind metamaterials is to create materials designed and engineered out of artificial atoms, meta-atoms, which are smaller than the wavelengths of light itself." In the cloak they used an array of tiny needles radiating outward from a central spoke and that would bent the light around the object. With the light going around the object it pretty makes that object invisible to the naked eye. Also with this technology they can start developing super fast computer microchips and can allow DNA to be visible to the naked eye. I think that this is an awesome cloak. I think that everyone would want one, but if the researchers finish the cloak that it will probably be used only for the military. It is a very cool invention but if it got in the wrong hands it could be used for bad. I do like that with this development there are many other cool toys and other things that can use that technology.