‘Cloaking’ device uses ordinary lenses to hide objects across range of angles

[MedicWine]

[QUOTE=Reds;46093458]You have to use whatever is most recently relevant in pop culture. Like how all power armour or powered exoskeletons are Iron Man suits these days.[/QUOTE]

Placing it vertically could allow you to hide tanks from planes.

[Fourier]

[QUOTE=Karmah;46093235]With this technology you could hide objects in a complex scene with relative ease

I imagine with a very large and thin lenses one could probably mask something in a forest for example[/QUOTE]

In a forest? Weed most probably.

[Thelurker1234]

[QUOTE=Complifused;46092199]Cool but useless[/QUOTE]

Imagine we discovered a warp drive in the 19th century
people would call it useless because its potential uses can't be realized yet

[Zero-Point]

[QUOTE=Tinter;46096494]They did make a more effective version, but they focused on trying to make it simple.[/QUOTE]

Okay, so imagine trying to conceal something with a massive clusterfuck of lenses. Not particularly easy or effective now is it?
And they sure as hell didn't show this "more effective version" in the video.

[swebonny]

And I think the object has to be in the focus area of the first lens for the light to bend around it.
Nevertheless, pretty damn badass to see the effects.

[viperfan7]

[QUOTE=Sableye;46094056]sept the barrel of the telescopes generally like the vacume of space while the internal electronics don't lol[/QUOTE]

Sealed boxes that still rest inside the barrel of the telescope, yes, it would increase the length of the scope, but at the same time it would decrease diameter