At the materials consultancy Material Connexion, the answer is simple: just reimagine the object’s primary purpose. The company helps connect assorted industries to material manufacturers, and ...

Material objects are important elements of this stagecraft. Physical settings (compare a lawyer’s office to a gymnasium) facilitate certain kinds of activity and not others.

LAURA LEVITT, The Allure of Material Objects, The Massachusetts Review, Vol. 60, No. 4 (WINTER 2019), pp. 639-654 ...

To create the cloaking material, the researchers grew 1-inch [2.54 cm]squares of the carbon nanotube forest and pasted them onto an object like a piece of paper.

They've developed a material "that can bend light around 3D objects" in effect, causing them to disappear. Now, of course this material currently only exists on a nano scale.