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Engadget: Kent Displays's Reflex LCD Electronic Skin changes colors to match your shirt, lipstick
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis: Video: Phone that can change color first step towards a whole new world of awesome
Core77: LCD skins can now be applied to objects and change color
Kent Displays's Reflex LCD Electronic Skin changes colors to match your shirt, lipstick
Engadget —
... Is that Coco Chanel cellphone applique you got at the mall starting to look a little... last season? Kent Displays Reflex LCD Electronic Skins may be the perfect partner to your fickle ways, changing colors on demand to suit your every mood and/or outfit. The ...
Video: Phone that can change color first step towards a whole new world of awesome
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... ? It’s an animated sci fi film set to ambient techno that takes a look at the kind of technology mobile phones will have in the future. One of the cool things in that video was a device that could change colors. It looks like some company called Kent Displays based out of the USA have made the first generation of that vision possible. The 65 micron thick material only requires power when changing color, and even then it uses only .7 milliwats for every square centimeter. It works down to -10 centigrade, which means I can’t use this in Finland during the winter, and ...
LCD skins can now be applied to objects and change color
Core77 —
A company called Kent Displays has developed something called Reflex Technology, whereby a thin but rugged LCD "skin" can be applied to laptops, cell phones, MP3 players, etc. and change color. Most impressively, it only requires power for the instant you change the color; after that it keeps the new shade but draws no juice.
The demo video (unembeddable, alas) must be seen, it's absolutely nutty. Click here and check out the second vid featuring the Reflex Double Layer.
The reason we think this tech could be of huge importance to ID'ers is because it transmits feedback without us having to peer into a ...



