A Gift From Harry Potter's Parents

As anyone who reads Harry Potter knows, the best gift ever was the invisibility cloak. That thing was awesome. And it keeps being used throughout the series because it's just so damn useful.

Well. According to Wired magazine, people are actually investigating whether invisibility cloaks are technologically feasible. They know what it has to do. The cloak would just let light course around it, like a river around a boulder. As far as everyone is concerned, the cloak, and all that is inside it, would just not be there.

The hard part is building the thing.

I have found this to be true when it comes to my brainchild: a creditcard sized lighter. See, a guy would carry a lighter in his pocket about the size of three credit cards packed together. It would only have enough butane for a few lights, but it would be designed for non-smoking guys who want to pick up women by offering them a light. I think it's brilliant. And by posting it here, I retain all copyrights, by the way. But I just don't know how to build it. Perhaps if I ever get a prototype I'll move on to the invisibility cloak and then build my own little Marauders' Map next.