Researchers Develop Purely Optical Cloaking

Rambo Tribble writes: Researchers at the University of Rochester have developed a remarkably effective visual cloak using a relatively simple arrangement of optical lenses. The method is unique in that it uses off-the-shelf components and provides cloaking through the visible spectrum. Also, it works in 3-D. As one researcher put it, "This is the first device that we know of that can do three-dimensional, continuously multidirectional cloaking, which works for transmitting rays in the visible spectrum." Bonus: The article includes instructions to build your own.

Comments

Acronym

[FrankDrebin]

It's the ROchester MUltidirectional Lens ANgle cloaking system.

Re:Cloaking

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Better yet:
1. Invent Cloak
2. Write Story giving directions
3. get slashdotted
4. website becomes invisible.

Re:Cloaking

[Fnord666]

What I find truly amazing is that there are still enough people around here to actually /. a site.

Is cloaking really needed anymore?

[BringsApples]

I mean, let's face it, at least in America, no one's looking at anything anyway. They're all face-down in their $device. And in the same manner as this ridiculous article where you have to stay away from the center of the lens, all you have to do is stay away from being on the people's device, or between it and them - and you're effectively cloaked to them.