Chinese scientists make cat and goldfish dissappear, using light bending 'invisibility cloak'

Scientists have revealed the optical trickery behind an 'invisibility cloak' that has been shown to make a kitten and goldfish mysteriously disappear.
In a video demonstrating the team of Chinese and Singaporean researchers' work, a
kitten and goldfish are hidden from view using the 'cloak' - which is not like the flowing material version worn by Harry Potter but carefully arranged thin panels of glass.
The cloak works by bending light around an object in the centre of a specially-designed glass construction to make it invisible to a viewer.

Researchers from the Zhejiang University, China and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have found a way to use light refraction to render objects invisible using their cloak, which is actually a cleverly-designed hexagonal array of panels of glass.

Zheng Bin, a researcher at Zhejiang University, told China View that the light humans see bounces off an object before it reaches our eyes.

'We found that if we could control the path of the light, we could make the object invisible.'
He said this means that they have worked to make the light bypass the object they want to hide, but still enable the light to reach a human's eyes. mailonline