Remember Harry Potter’s cloak of invisibility? Canada’s Hyperstealth Biotechnology Corp. has developed a camouflage material that can make those who wear it completely invisible by bending light waves around them. Dubbed “Quantum Stealth,” the material is so effective that, although still in development stages, the US military has backed the company.

“Two separate command groups within the U.S. military and two separate Canadian military groups as well as Federal Emergency Response Team (counter terrorism) have seen the actual material so they could verify that I was not just manipulating video or photo results,” Hyperstealth Biotechnology CEO Guy Cramer said.

In order to protect the material’s secrecy, only mock ups are shown on the company Web site, but Biotechnology Corp. has given “need-to-know” demonstrations, and Cramer said the military groups believe in its viability.

“These groups now know that it works and does so without cameras, batteries, lights or mirrors. It is lightweight and quite inexpensive,” he said. “Both the U.S. and Canadian military have confirmed that it also works against military IR scopes and Thermal Optics.”

Cramer hopes the technology will someday allow special forces teams to carry out raids undetected in broad daylight.

“As news spreads of an invisible Canadian army which can move without detection, the psychological effect on the enemy is devastating, they never know when or even if this invisible army has them targeted or surrounded,” he said.

Sounds awesome, as long as it doesn’t fall into enemy hands, of course.

[Images via Hyperstealth Biotechnology]