Alrighty, Cloaking thingies have been under development for several years and things have been progressed pretty well… But some MIT dudes just made the little ninja inside me cry 😛
Long story short, the cloaking carpet that everyone thought would make Ninja’s invisibility come to reality works in a way that makes light steers away using some special dielectric materials on a layer or whatever.
Anyway, those MIT dudes figured that looking at it from a special angle would reveal what’s been hidden and all due to some wavelength distortion.
I think my explanation is crap, so click on source to read the article.