• University of Rochester Ph.D. student Joseph Choi demonstrates a cloaking device using four lenses in Rochester, New York on Sept. 11. | REUTERS
    University of Rochester Ph.D. student Joseph Choi demonstrates a cloaking device using four lenses in Rochester, New York on Sept. 11. | REUTERS

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ROCHESTER, NEW YORK – Watch out Harry Potter, you are not the only wizard with an invisibility cloak.

Scientists at the University of Rochester have discovered a way to hide large objects from sight using inexpensive and readily available lenses, a technology that seems to have sprung from the pages of J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” fantasy series.

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