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• n  the quality of not being perceivable by the eye

• From a genetic testing service to an invisibility cloak to an ingenious public bike system to the world's first moving skyscraper here are PTI's picks for the top innovations .
• Last year, a team at the University of California, Berkeley, announced that it had developed materials that could lead to an invisibility cloak.
• Harry Potter isn't the only academic with an invisibility cloak.

• invisibleness

• visibility

News & Articles

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• Quantum invisibility cloak could hide objects from reality
  Researchers believe it is possible to create a quantum invisibility cloak. Anything hidden in it would be shielded from reality on a quantum level.
  June 13, 2013 - ExtremeTech
• Researchers Invent Invisibility Cloak
  Researchers at Purdue University have developed an invisibility cloak that uses time to make things disappear. “A lot of people have seen the invisibility cloak in the Harry Potter movies,” said Purdue professor Andrew M. Weiner.  ”In scientific research terms that is a spatial cloak....
  June 12, 2013 - ABC News Blogs via Yahoo! News
• Invisibility CloakHides Cats and Fish
  A fish swims into an enclosure and disappears, while the pondweed behind remains perfectly visible. A cat climbs into a glass box and vanishes, and again the scene behind the box remains visible through the glass. This latest addition to the science of invisibility cloaks is one of the simplest implementations so far, but there’s no denying its striking impact. [More]
  June 11, 2013 - Scientific American

Quotes

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• Armistead Maupin in guardian.co.uk
  It's what I call invisibility of process. Basically we're allowing everyone who cares to kind of peek in on all of the process of creating something, rather than just being handled the finished product at the end, or the finished piece at the... Michael Stipe http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stipe&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF6uXcdYVDPglFsBsXI2ypO2HtVgQ Newsweek http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.newsweek.com/id/142428&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHRx5OH1hQeTe7pp-7EP3FHvnp_8w Jun 20, 2008 53531 70504 invisibility We've made progress from utter invisibility 30 years ago to prominence in the cultural scene, but with that prominence has come a more rampant form of homophobia," Maupin told AP. "My hope is that we're close to the time that homophobia...
• Hans Ulrich Obrist in MutualArt.com (registration)
  Its what the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist calls "the fundamental invisibility."