Researchers have developed a system to change the color and pattern of objects using UV light-activated dyeing. Within minutes, it will be possible to personalize your clothes or anything.
There are already some smart clothes, which can change their patterns thanks to an integrated flexible screen. However, it has some disadvantages such as autonomy and resistanceresistance when washing. Researchers from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence IntelligenceIntelligence Lab (CSAIL) You Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has just introduced another approach, called PortaChrome, that allows you to replace ColorColor and object pattern.
Instead of integrating the electronics into the object, PortaChrome consists of two parts: a polychrome die affixed to the object, and a separate flexible device, which LEDLED Red, Green and Blue (RGB) and UltravioletUltraviolet which changes the color of the dye. This makes it possible to create reprogrammable surfaces, and is based on the ChromoUpdate system introduced a few years ago.
Yunyi Zhu of MIT’s CSAIL lab introduced PortaChrome, a system for customizing the color and pattern of objects. (In English, enable automatic translation of subtitles.) © MIT CSAIL
Four minutes to change the color of the dress
The dye can be applied to various objects such as a TT-A shirt, headphones, shoes, a mug or even a murmur. The device is then held up. UV LEDs activate color, while RGB LEDs adjust color. This process takes about four minutes. The device receives the pattern through Bluetooth can be placed around objects, or even connected to other objects. In one example, the PortaChrome device is attached to a bag. OfOf and is held in place with a photochromic dye on the back of the wearer’s t-shirt. The device captures height and heart rate data, which is then displayed on the T-shirt. Even if the wearer would have trouble seeing them behind his back…
The researchers hope that this technology could eventually allow the creation of fully reprogrammable clothing and objects. Now they plan to use smaller but more powerful LEDs, which will allow patterns to be created faster and with higher definition.
