Quote Originally Posted by ExoByte View Post
It raises the prospect of invisibility shields that could hide objects sitting right under your nose. [/b]
This isnt just for Radar. It bends the light around an object. Thus the light will not hit the object, and will not bounce from it. Rendering the object unseen to the eye. As mentioned, there is slight distortion, Imagine it as a shimmering effect. The light bends around the object, bounces off what ever is behind it, then bends back around it into our eyes.
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I saw the head of the project on TV. It does not bend light. Only microwaves. I underlined the key words in the sentence here, from your quote. Prospect and could. Meaning that in the future, it could be that one could invent this for light since it is possible in the microwave range.

This technique does not work for light. From the mouth of the head of the project. One would have to implement a similar technique in the nano scale for light, to deal with the size of light waves. However, the flaw of the design is that it only work for a narrow range. So, the nano light bending one would not bend microwaves. Just like the microwave bending one does not work in the light spectrum.

All I have said here and my prior post, is from the mouth of the head of the project as he explained it on Daily Planet. He even said that it is definitively not like the invisibility cloak from Harry Potter.

Right now, this particular method can be used to shield from radars operating in the microwave range only. It is bulky and the only application worth investigating is satellite cloaking from radar detectors. Any device operating at other frequencies would detect the structure. To shield a 2 feet diameter satellite, you would need a 30 feet diameter device.

It is cool though.