How scientists are creating real-life invisibility cloaks - Max G. Levy
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A spy presses a button on their suit and blinks out of sight. A wizard wraps himself in a cloak and disappears. A star pilot flicks a switch, and their ship vanishes into space. Invisibility is one of the most tantalizing powers in fiction, spanning all kinds of stories. But could this fantasy ever become a reality? Max G. Levy digs into the technologies that could make invisibility possible.
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Meet The Creators
- Director Michael Kalopaidis, Zedem Media
- Educator Max G. Levy
- Narrator Addison Anderson
- Storyboard Artist Wing Luo
- Animator Christos Papandreopoulos, Maria Savva, Eleni Catherine Demetriou, Rafael Kallistratou
- Art Director Jeanne Bornet
- Sound Designer Manolis Manoli
- Composer Manolis Manoli
- Produced by Gerta Xhelo, Abdallah Ewis
- Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal
- Editorial Producer Dan Kwartler
- Fact-Checker Charles Wallace