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Pickup line, circa 2030: "Do my pants think it's hot in here, or is it just you?"
Imagine a single-coloured piece of cloth that suddenly displays a colourful pattern when the ambient temperature changes. Upon further temperature change, a completely different pattern shows up.
[...] Marjan Kooroshnia began her research on already existing descriptions of leuco dye-based thermochromic inks; below their activation temperature they are coloured, and above their activation temperature they are clear or have a light hue. In addition, they are usually blended with static pigments, allowing them to change from one colour to another.
[...] After a lot of testing in the printing lab, she managed to mix the inks so that they looked similar when they were in a non-heated state and they change to different colours as result of increasing temperature.
Then, she explored thermochromic inks with different activation temperatures in order to create a wide spectrum of colours that would appear at different temperatures. She used thermochromic inks with activation temperatures of 27, 37 and 47°C to create a dynamic pattern that colour changing effects that appear in sequence due to increasing temperature; for example, the pattern has one colour at 27°C, another colour at 37°C and another colour at 47°C.
Or will it take off as a uniform that's white when it's cold, and camouflage pattern when it's hot?
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday March 15 2017, @03:30AM
Yeah, it's a strange dichotomy isn't it? Such horribly awful hair on men (though the women's hair looked great; this changed in the 80s though with the stupid "big hair" on women, but men's hair looked better except for the guys wearing mullets), such horrible cars (at least the American ones, the Japanese ones were sensible which is why they took over), such horribly ugly clothes, but such fantastic music. It took until the 90s for clothing and hair styles to look decent and not ridiculous in some way, and for cars to really look good again, but the music in the 90s took a gigantic turn for the worse, right down the shitter. Somewhere around the early/mid 90s music all just turned to shit, starting with the "grunge" trend (which wasn't so bad, but it was the beginning of the end), and has gotten steadily worse since then. It's almost like people forgot what good music was, and how to have fun with it, but they couldn't separate the sensibility of good, timeless styling from music with real character; it had to be one or the other.