–
The German company BVM showed at the big consumer electronics show in Las Vegas a car that changes the color of the body at the touch of a button. The concept model demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) uses the so-called electronic ink.
The BMW iX Flow is covered with a material commonly used in electronic readers. When stimulated with electrical signals from a special application in a mobile phone, it accepts different outlines in gray and white.
“This is a real effective color change using E Ink,” explains engineer Stella Clark of BVM’s research team. “So we took this material, which looks like thick paper, and we had to deal with the challenge of applying it to a three-dimensional object like this car.”
Electrical signals bring different pigments to the surface, which makes the car look different shades and designs, including the appearance of sports-style strips. Only a model switching between gray and white was demonstrated at CES, but according to the creators, the technology can be expanded to cover a range of colors.
