'Cloaking' Device Uses Ordinary Lenses to Hide Objects

Exhibition: Cloaking Technology at the University of Rochester Inspired perhaps by Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak, scientists have recently developed several ways—some simple and some involving new technologies—to hide objects from view. There Is Now An IRL Invisibility Cloak You Can Make For $50 Back in September, researchers at the University of Rochester announced that they had created a 3D-transmitting continuously multidirectional cloaking device. Yeah, we weren't sure what that meant University of Rochester Creates 3-D Cloaking Device

The Rochester Cloak array, showing how the lenses bend light. Rochester University The off-the-shelf lenses are placed at such a distance from each other so as to allow the light to act in

Scientists at the University of Rochester invented an actual cloaking device that will make objects disappear. This is not a joke. You can buy a cloaking device for $49. Make your OWN invisibility cloak using these simple tricks Sep 29, 2014

Discovery Channel, Canada, “Daily Planet,” (March 18, 2015). Two 4 lens cloaks are presented: One is the original “Rochester Cloak.” The other has almost double the field-of-view, 1.5 times the cloaked diameter, and a cloaking region that no longer needs the center unobstructed. W. Smith, Modern Lens Design, 2nd ed. (McGraw-Hill, 2005).

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