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Flexible 'Skin-like' Colour Display Developed

posted by cmn32480 on Saturday June 27 2015, @06:45AM   
from the where'd-he-go dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

A fully flexible colour display inspired by chameleon skin has been developed by a team in Florida.

Its creators say it could be used to alter soldiers' camouflage instantly, allow normal clothes to change colour, or create low-powered e-reader screens.

The colour change is achieved by applying different voltage levels to the display.

The team has been given a $300,000 (£190,000) grant to develop the technology further.

"You create a surface which absorbs some light, and reflects the remaining light," Prof Debashis Chanda, of the University of Central Florida, told the BBC.

"[When we add] the ability to selectively absorb different colours, the remaining amount of light creates the different colour perception."

Now when the wife comes looking for you to do yard work, you can blend into the sofa.

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  Can be Used to Kill dem Terrists == FUNDING (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2015, @06:56AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2015, @06:56AM (#202003)

  May the Holy Jihad against Brown People last FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• thoughtcrime thoughtcrime (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2015, @07:20AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2015, @07:20AM (#202005)

  Now when the wife comes looking for you to do yard work, you can blend into the sofa.

  I have alerted the Social Justice League.

  • Re:thoughtcrime (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday June 27 2015, @11:59AM

    by c0lo (156) on Saturday June 27 2015, @11:59AM (#202045) Journal

    Now when the wife comes looking for you to do yard work, you can blend into the sofa.

    I have alerted the Social Justice League.

    Dude! Life must be pretty hard in US if the Social Justice League are happy to come and mow my lawn. Are their prices competitive?

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  I for one welcome our new Navy Seal Chameleons (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2015, @08:06AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2015, @08:06AM (#202014)

  May their many successful assassination missions bring fame and high public approval ratings for our Lord God Emperor Omaba.

• fantastic! (Score: 2) by Gravis on Saturday June 27 2015, @06:04PM

  by Gravis (4596) on Saturday June 27 2015, @06:04PM (#202166)

  this is just the kind of display needed for a practical wrist computer! add the recent advance in van der Waals force based adhesive tech and it could stick to your arm with ease. now we just need Quantum Dot Cellular Automata [wikipedia.org] backend and you've got a wrist computer with a comprable weight and battery life to your standard wrist watch.