Nissan Developing Color Changing Paint November 09, 2007
If Nissan has anything to say about it, soon everyone will be James Bonds, changing the color of their car with the flip of a switch. That's because Nissan is developing a paramagnetic iron oxide paint polymer. Using an electrical charge, the arrangement of iron oxide crystals can be tweaked, adjusting the car's color. (It just so happens that metal-bodied cars make for excellent conductive surfaces.) But we're really excited over Nissan's surely bogus but juicy claim to have the technology on the market extremely soon, by 2010 if possible. Oh...except there's one catch.
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Huh? Would it really turn white? I know oxides of iron can be black or redish, surely by applying a current, it flips between the two so when you left it parked it'd either be red or black, whichever was the lowest energy state? Also, it'd be much cooler if sectiosn of the car could be flipped on and off rather than the whole surface or even if it could be used selectively so that pattterns appeared when it turned on and it was all one colour when it was turned off.
this is the perfect invention for a get away car! just imagine driving down a dark street then coming out in the light in a different colour car! not that anyone should try this! it..is ...illegal. haha
what would appear on the registration document under "colour"?
variable :P lol
Sounds Intresting!
This was done years ago! I saw it in a documentary called 'The Cannonball Run'where a one eyed jewish black guy in a ferrari simply washed the colour off. Old technology.....yawn....
Why don't they just cover the thing with that global hypercolour material that was so popular in t-shirts in the 90's. The car could then change colour depending on the temperature.
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