- [Narrator] Can you see me?
My dog can't either.
There's my dog.
There's me.
And that is an invisibility shield.
Obi!
- [Man] He has no idea where you are.
- Hey! [Laughs]
This is unusual.
- So Obi didn't even see me on that,
which is, which is pretty great.
It, it passed the dog test.
- [Man] Yeah, you were calling him and he couldn't even-
He didn't know.
- No. He had to use his nose to find me, which was great.
Man's pursuit of becoming undetectable can be traced back
through Hollywood, whether it's aliens,
wizards, or superheroes, we've always dreamed
of becoming imperceptible.
- (gasping) Whoa!
Camouflage and stealth technology is the closest we've come
to having the superpower, until now.
What if we could harness the technology
behind Harry Potter's cloak,
(record scratching) but without the green screen.
While a Canadian based company called Hyperstealth
shared their patent pending technology
a few years ago on social media
its original intent was to be used by the military
and out of the public's eye, but turns out
it was just too cool not to share.
(laughing) That's so cool.
- [Man] That's insane, dude.
- And let's not act like this invention is anything new.
It uses lenticular lenses, the same material
used in those 3D DVD covers
or the McDonald's hockey cards I had as a kid
only without the image.
I've actually used this principle in a magic trick
developed by inventor, magician Lubor Fiedler.
He calls it Lubor's Lens.
(whooshing)
I'm going to make this pen vanish,
but not in a conventional way.
I'm gonna use this.
This is a magical lens that'll make things invisible.
Here's how it works.
If I put it over top of the pen
notice how you can see my fingers here
but you can't see the pen.
Can you see that?
- [Man] Yeah.
- [ Narrator] Watch when I start turning it like this
you'll notice the pen slowly starts to reappear.
It's almost like, it's almost like it's being twisted
in a way where it actually twists the pen for real.
This effect is known as Snell's law.
Basically this material is dense enough to slow
down light and can change its direction through refraction.
The light hitting your eye is actually the light
from the side of the shield being redirected
to the front of it.
Allowing you to hide any number of objects
within a certain distance directly behind it.
As a magician, you can imagine
how exciting this concept is to me.
Going from smoke and mirrors to smoking lenses could
possibly open up a ton of opportunities in the magic space.
- [Man] Dude, that's nuts.
- Frantically trying to find out where I could get my hands
on such a device I came across a YouTube channel
called Randomonium. The channel's run by Tate
and Tate is a bit of a mad scientist.
(motor rumbling)
- [Tate] For now we're just going to do that.
- [Narrator] From building wood burying generators,
to fully functional jump stilts from scratch.
He's incredibly smart
and figured out how to make a homemade version
of this invisibility shield.
I recommend you check his videos out.
They're pretty dope, links in the description.
I reached out to Tate and asked him to build me one.
It came in the mail, it got a bit dinged up during shipping
and it's a bit rough around the edges, but as you can see
or not see in this case, it gets the job done.
(mellow music)
After testing out this giant lens,
we figured out that it works best
with a horizontal background.
Meaning, it will pretty much delete any vertical pattern.
So putting it in front of something
with horizontal lines will sell the illusion much more.
Do you see that?
- [Man] Yeah, yeah.
- This is like completely gone.
So vertical lines will disappear
and horizontal lines are going to get stretched out.
If I just move it over here,
now going behind it,
it'll stretch out those horizontal lines
but it'll delete the vertical ones.
So as long as I'm vertical behind this thing,
like, it'll pretty much delete me, which is pretty awesome.
We've also tried seeing if it could get
by our security cameras and, well, here's how that went.
So they're hiding out in the warehouse right now
and we're going to test out
a different angle on security camera.
You guys ready?
- [Man] Yeah.
- You won't find him.
(chiming music)
- (laughs) Okay. I see you. You're in the kitchen.
That's pretty good.
Here say hi!
So I wouldn't say it passed the test
but it was definitely interesting to try out.
For now I think it's safe to say
that real life cloaking hasn't been entirely cracked yet
but with advancements like this
and people like Tate who are willing to get a little messy.
I don't believe we're too far off
or maybe this technology is already here.
We just can't see it.
Thanks for watching.
(mellow music)
- (grunting) All right, I hope you guys enjoyed that.
We changed it up a little bit for this week's Unusual.
We're still adapting.
We're still trying to figure out what this format is.
These videos are very close to my heart
and something I really love creating.
We love making them, we love editing them
and we love shooting them.
And we really need your feedback on, on what you
guys enjoyed and what you would like to see more of.
So you see, we chopped it, we chopped up some vlog in there.
This is only our third one that we've done so far,
so we're still learning.
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