To be completely clear, this post has absolutely nothing to do with the 'omics community. It's just too cool not to include.
According to this wire story, physicists based at Purdue University say they have come up with a theoretical design for a device that would make objects, for all intents and purposes, invisible. The article quotes lead researcher Vladimir Shalaev as saying, "It looks pretty much like fiction, I do realize, but it's completely in agreement with the laws of physics."