Harry Potter’s Invisibility Cloak Could Be Used In The Muggle World Soon

If you were part of the Harry Potter generation who wanted to go to Hogwarts, get an invisibility cloak in your Christmas gift pile, and taste their amazing candy, well, there could be an answer to all of that.

Scientists are one step closer to an invisibility cloak https://t.co/ad5aUpqQyM pic.twitter.com/ai9jd4dY6u

— Gizmodo (@Gizmodo) July 16, 2016

Someone already explained why kids born in the 90s never got their Hogwarts letter. You can buy the sweets from any of the Universal Studios Harry Potter World stores - and the invisibility cloak could be coming your way soon.

AOL reported that scientists from the Queen Mary University of London managed to make a material that makes protruding areas appear flat to electromagnetic waves, effectively "cloaking" them to hide and object. They tested the item with tennis ball-sized objects coated with a nanocomposite medium.

The nanocomposite medium has several layers of varying electric properties, and Digital Trends said that this effectively makes the rounded shape look flat under certain frequencies.

QUML's School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science professor Yang Hao, who is co-author of the study, said in a statement that the design of the object was based on transformation optics, the concept behind such an idea as that of an invisibility cloak.

She shared, "Previous research has shown this technique working at one frequency. However, we can demonstrate that it works at a greater range of frequencies making it more useful for other engineering applications, such as nano-antennas and the aerospace industry."

Harry Potter and the rest of the Wizarding World should probably start shaking in their magical boots. Muggles found a way to recreate their Butterbeers, and even have (slightly) workable wands now - who knows, in a few years The Boy Who Lived may not be the only one to have an invisibility cloak - a lot of muggle adults probably will have their own, too.