UK company develops Harry Potter-like invisibility cloak. Watch how it works

If you are a Harry Potter fan then you must have wanted an invisibility cloak, one of the three presents of Death. Well, your prayers have been answered as a company developed a shield, similar to Harry's invisibility cloak dubbed as 'invisibility megashield.'

'Want to experience the power of invisibility? We've got you covered,' said the Invisibility Shield Co., a London-based startup that is selling these shields for £699.

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How does the 'invisibility megashield' work?

The shield makes use of a precision-engineered lens to bend the light that reflects from the person standing behind the shield away from the observer, thus making them almost invisible to the observer's eye.

"The lenses in this array are oriented so that the vertical strip of light reflected by the standing/crouching subject becomes diffuse when spread out horizontally on passing through the back of the shield," the Invisibility Shield Co wrote on its Kickstarter page.

"In contrast, the strip of light reflected from the background is much wider, so when it passes through the back of the shield, far more of it is refracted both across the shield and towards the observer. From the observer's perspective, this background light is effectively smeared horizontally across the front face of the shield, over the area where the subject would ordinarily be seen," the explanation read.

The megashield can hide multiple people standing behind it side by side because of its big size. The shield is 6ft tall and 4ft wide in size and is made from high-grade polycarbonate. It took Invisibility Shield Co. almost two years of testing before developing this latest model.

According to the developing team behind 'invisibility megashield,' the shield works best against uniform backdrops such as grass, foliage, sand, and sky, or backgrounds with defined horizontal lines work extremely well, such as the horizon, walls, rails, or painted lines, etc.

The company currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter, where you people can purchase the Megashield for the early bird price of £699.