The US army wants to develop uniforms that will make its troops “invisible” on the battlefield within the next 18 months.
The military wants to test the latest wearable camouflage technologies, and has put out a call for proposals from companies manufacturing “metamaterials”. These highly adaptive structures, first demonstrated in 2006, can bend light around the wearer, essentially making them “invisible” from certain angles.
By: Daniel Culpan,
