Once again BBC technology news warps a superficial report around a wishful idea with an article on an invisible cloak. The details are so thin as to provoke disbelief. Particularly with the image-bite accompanying the story 
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In fact, it prompted me to take 15 minutes out of my life to recreate the image with a little help from my housemate (thanks, max!).
[...] I’ve picked at the BBC’s SciTech reporting before (here and here) but this is just plain negligent. No matter that it smacks of a press release and skimps on analysis. Like, isn’t this just backward compatibility? What about cost? [...]
[...] Rummaging around on the site stats trying to uncover where all my quota has gone, I come across many downloads of a picture in a post from July 2004. It’s my old housemate Max wearing what appears to be a cloak of invisibility, thanks to photoshop. The referrer tracks down to a harry potter fan site. No link, credit or anything – how rude! [...]