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Car Paint Changes With Temperature
PlayfullyClever writes "It's now common to build materials which can change colors depending on their surrounding environment because of progresses made in colloid chemistry. But now, German researchers have gone a step further. They've used ion bombardment and gold metallisation to produce new particles whose bonding behavior can be chemically tailored. This could lead to new shimmering car finishes which can change with temperature or humidity, new cosmetics, but more importantly, to new applications in optical data processing"
All the Ricers Rejoice!
Now we're not limited to Type-R stickers anymore!
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I can already hear Xzibit running like mad to get this stuff. Cars that change colors? You've officially been pimped!
I enjoy large posteriors and I cannot prevaricate.
This could mean a great deal for real scientific applications such as the "aura detector" http://www.amasci.com/freenrg/aura/aura.html
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Just in time for the next wave of 70's nostalgia.
-JMP
"Quick! I need a paintjob!"
"Ok"
Brings out flamethrower.
"NO!!!"
Hypercolor shirts were awesome!
there's more than one way to do me.
Anyone remember those Hotwheels toy cars that changed colour with hot and cold water? Or Hypercolour T-shirts? No? I think this technology is a little late for the 80's...
1 Adam 12, 1 Adam 12...be on the lookout for a GREEN Chevy sedan. Unless its after 6 PM or so....then be on the lookout for a BLUE Chevy sedan.
A better use of this technology would be to use the paint on computer cases and CPU fans, not cars! Yes, I'm a geek.
It's better to burn out than to fade away
Coming to a Pay and Spray near you*
*paint chemists not responsible for dead hookers.
...to a a Type-R near you. Huge rear wing that applies downforce to the wrong wheels optional.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
its hard enough to find my car in a parking lot when it has normal paint. imagine trying to find your car when it changed colors. its down right impossible.
Lizard "Never let them set limits on your mind!"
The job of a car thief is hard enough without also having to consult the Weather Channel for opportune times to strike. ;-)
How would this work, exactly?
"Wow Carol... that new rouge really looks nice on you!"
"Thanks for noticing, Sue - but it only looks nice when the temperature is below 75 degrees... any warmer than that and I'd look like a total whore!"
My car has that paint! It's activated by salt on the winter roads and other things. I've had to wait a long time for the colors to change, but there is a sort of reddish-brown highlight effect behind the tires, at the tip of the hood, and above the windsheild, surrounded by a drab gray halo, then the silver-gray regular color of the car. It looks pretty amazing!
I cried real tears when Li Mu Bai died.
Yeah: hypercolor shirts that changed colour when you changed temperature - showed where you were sweaty etc.
A car that has a big red splotch on the bonnet just above the engine when it warms up.
That's got to be useful for something, NOT.
Yeah, for when the US is involved in actions that push from the arctic through a jungle to the middle east without stopping...
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Color changes with temperature or humidity?
Bah! We already have that up north... and it's free... it's called 'snow'
I live in Soviet Canuckistan you insensitive clod!
Imagine a cold rain on a warm hood...
My T-shrit changed from white to yellow -- but I couldn't get it to change back...
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Number-changing license plates?
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
remember mood rings? Just imagine mood cars! Show the world your road rage as your car turns a fiery angry reddish-purple...