{"id":7751,"date":"2022-11-08T13:40:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T12:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/08\/making-the-invisibility-cloak-a-reality\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:40:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T12:40:34","slug":"making-the-invisibility-cloak-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/08\/making-the-invisibility-cloak-a-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the \u2018invisibility cloak\u2019 a reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three years\u2019 research and a lot of very expensive materials have gone into Steve and Nick Tidball\u2019s thermal camouflage jacket. Can its wearer really blend into the background?<\/p>\n<p>Harry Potter\u2019s invisibility cloak arrived in a parcel for Christmas, with a note from Dumbledore: \u201cUse it well.\u201d Ron Weasley\u2019s reaction was, as you might expect, to be insanely jealous. Who, after all, hasn\u2019t dreamed of having the power of passing through the world without being seen?<\/p>\n<p>Well, there might just be some good news for Ron and the rest of us. A pair of twins have created something very like an invisibility cloak. No, not the Weasley twins, but real-life brothers Steve and Nick Tidball. They call it the thermal camouflage jacket, and I\u2019ve come to see it and Steve, in the offices of the brothers\u2019 futuristic clothing company, hidden away behind a Travelodge in King\u2019s Cross, London.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/08\/what-does-a-100000-invisibility-cloak-look-like-funny-you-should-ask-\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3d4426a526c3ba01955a7833bf19f2a812d9ab39\/0_202_6837_4104\/master\/6837.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f4232a05cdf1af4e72024118a0142503\" title=\"Making the \u2018invisibility cloak\u2019 a reality\" \/>Three years\u2019 research and a lot of very expensive materials have gone into Steve and Nick Tidball\u2019s thermal camouflage jacket. Can its wearer really blend into the background?<br \/>\nHarry Potter\u2019s invisibility cloak arrived in a parcel for Christmas, with a note from Dumbledore: \u201cUse it well.\u201d Ron Weasley\u2019s reaction was, as you might expect, to be insanely jealous. Who, after all, hasn\u2019t dreamed of having the power of passing through the world without being seen?<br \/>\nWell, there might just be some good news for Ron and the rest of us. A pair of twins have created something very like an invisibility cloak. No, not the Weasley twins, but real-life brothers Steve and Nick Tidball. They call it the thermal camouflage jacket, and I\u2019ve come to see it and Steve, in the offices of the brothers\u2019 futuristic clothing company, hidden away behind a Travelodge in King\u2019s Cross, London. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years\u2019 research and a lot of very expensive materials have gone into Steve and Nick Tidball\u2019s thermal camouflage jacket. Can its wearer really blend into the background? Harry Potter\u2019s invisibility cloak arrived in a parcel for Christmas, with a note from Dumbledore: \u201cUse it well.\u201d Ron Weasley\u2019s reaction was, as you might expect, to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/08\/making-the-invisibility-cloak-a-reality\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making the \u2018invisibility cloak\u2019 a reality<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7751"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}