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Father-Son Team Demonstrates Simple Optical Cloaking of Large Objects

Wednesday, June 12th, 2013

The hell with the US Army Camouflage Improvement Effort. They’ve spent millions of dollars and taken years to field nothing. On the other hand this father and son team at the University of Rochester have successfully cloaked a kid!

John Howell, a Professor of Physics at the University of Rochester and his 14-year-old son Benjamin conducted this feat with off-the-shelf items.

Learn more by reading their paper.

Thanks CC!