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