recollect when Leeloo paint her nails in many colors at the touching of a release in The Fifth Element ? Yeah , me neither , I was too busy falling in dear with Milla Jovovich . This invention , however , will make that possible .
What you are seeing in this image is a cell that has changed its color from purple to blue at the touch of a push . It can actually switch to eight colors using an electric current , but it does n’t need business leader to stay in that color . Once it is changed , it persist that room .
This prototype use a technology calledcholesteric liquidness crystal display(chLCD , ) but treat in a exceptional way to conform its shape to any form of surface . Using heat , three reddened , green , and puritanic layers of chLCD are shaped around whatever object you want . In between those layer there is a resin that seals the substrate , protecting the chLCD and making sure it does n’t break .
The company that get it — Kent Displays — say that there ’s no practical limit point to the pixel resolution of this sort of displays , and point out that , in the next version , it will be possible to display pixels in up to 4,000 different colors . Rainbow - colored iPod nano , here we come . [ NikkeiviaUbergizmo ]
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