Invisibility cloaks creep closer

This article is intriguing. Taken out of the IEEE Spectrum online magazine.
"Using nanometer-scale metamaterials, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have bent visible light the wrong way for the first time around a three-dimensional surface. Previously, they were able only to cloak very thin two-dimensional objects. It's a big step toward the science-fiction-like goal of making things invisible."

For the full article click here: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/aug08/6564