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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 VLM on Wednesday March 15 2017, @01:56PM (3 children)
remember patent leather jackets
I was a dumb kid at the time and had one of those and thought it was real leather or real something anyway and it looked really cool for a couple months and then the fake leather wore thru in one spot and the entire layer of something like car upholstery vinyl leather peeled off the real fabric layer which it wasn't really attached to. I was like WTF kind of animal did this weird as hell leather come from? Is this like a lizard shedding its skin and this is just the top layer? I has quite familiar with the concept of leather from wallets and holsters but being a kid I though my jacket was just weirdly dyed and processed animal leather. That was my introduction to the concept of patent leather.
And computers back then actually had keyboards with real keys, with real travel.
I still use my model M from the 80s, best keyboard ever made by humanity. Plugs into a real converter (not plug adapter) that converts to USB.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday March 15 2017, @04:29PM (2 children)
These were reasonable modern keyboards: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2CP54M8367&cm_re=quickfire-_-9SIA2CP54M8367-_-Product [newegg.com]
I see prices are up and they are currently unavailable, too bad, I like the two I have had for the last 4 years and would probably buy another when I need one.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday March 15 2017, @05:20PM (1 child)
Yeah the number pad could use some work on that one. There are attempts at making something as good as the old M and reddit mechanicalkeyboards and all that, but its not quite there.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday March 15 2017, @06:09PM
At home, I'm space constrained (small desk with two notebooks, two extra monitors and a keyboard and mouse....) so the compact form factor is a plus for me, but it does take a little getting used to.
Since I got used to it at home, I got an identical one for work - much easier that way. I agree, it seems more optimized for gaming than work, but working with what you're trained to is usually more important than any specific layout details.
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