They add that the devices could have "important security, entertainment, and surveillance applications".
The scientists said in a paper that their work has "made a step toward practical application of invisibility cloaking in hiding large-scale creatures in plain sight," which could be useful in "security, entertainment and surveillance".
Kingsoft started out developing PC games, but today the company — which is listed in Hong Kong and valued at over $2 billion — produces security, entertainment and enterprise products too.
They gained attention recently when they penetrated the security of entertainment corporations.
The chaps at MIT may offer you centralised control of heat, light, security and entertainment, but what about the housework?
Screen saver programs, originally intended to help prevent damage to older computer monitors, are often used now for security or entertainment purposes when the computer is idle.
THE WHOLE HOME Some homeowners have much bigger ambitions of creating whole-home systems, where home automation, security and entertainment are all integrated and controllable from a single interface.
The "electronic lifestyle" includes, by Beyond's definition, "home care devices, home hub command center, telephony, health medical devices, monitoring security devices, entertainment command center, games, connected appliances and lighting".
The small paintings form tidy thematic sequences — about personal grooming and maintenance, tabloid culture, precaution and fear in times of war, child-rearing — that ask, with a fair degree of wit and a debater's persistence, how far we are willing to go for beauty, security, and entertainment.
Examples of applications involving video processing and analysis include surveillance and security, telemedicine, entertainment, teaching, and robotics.
Allo, then, offers users a choice: privacy and security or entertainment and interactivity.
