Child prodigy - Part 2

Today we have seen the following news item appear, and the only thing that is amazing about it is that it has taken scientists so long to develop something that I was personally demonstrating in 1965!

The article states that: -

A US-British team of scientists has successfully tested a cloak of invisibility in the laboratory.
The device mostly hid a small copper cylinder from microwaves in tests at Duke University, North Carolina.
It works by deflecting the microwaves around the object and restoring them on the other side, as if they had passed through empty space.

The cloak consists of 10 fibreglass rings covered with copper elements and is classed as a "metamaterial" - an artificial composite that can be engineered to produce a desired change in the direction of electromagnetic waves.

The articles also said “...But making an object vanish before a person's eyes is still the stuff of science fiction - for now”.

Who are they trying to kid! My family has long known that when I was 5, I made a horse invisible (albeit that they diminish this achievement by simply saying that I had an invisible horse - which is clearly something quite different). Proof of this achievement, was evidenced by the fact that when I had to "...let go of the reins", to tie my shoelace or something, whoever was with me would take hold of them, so that the horse wouldn't run off!