This video shows how a BMW car suddenly changes color
BMW has unveiled its new E Ink technology in the BMW iX Flow Concept at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas. This technology allows the car to change color from white to black thanks to electrophoresis technology.
This week at the Consumer Electronics Show, technology was unveiled that seems to be quite advanced: the BMW iX Flow with color-changing "E Ink" coating.
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From white to black in an instant
A slightly stunning innovation allows the car to be white one moment and then dark grey, and the technology can even make the secondary color temporarily slowly creep over the bodywork, as if someone had waved a magic wand at you.
According to BMW, the R&D project is based on electrophoretic technology, the science developed by Xerox that separates charged molecules with an electric field, and the wrapper brings out pigments of different colors when it is "stimulated by electrical signals." .
The following video below is extremely impressive and compelling, especially for a first public iteration, and you'd be forgiven if you found these videos to be fake. But it's real, and as it turns out, it doesn't handle non-ideal temperatures well because, according to Out of Spec Studios on Twitter, BMW had a backup example saved in case it got too hot or too cold.
Electronic ink technology that locates a vehicle
BMW says their E Ink technology is more than just a matter of vanity. For example, it can provide a quick and easy way to communicate the condition of a vehicle, such as whether it is fully charged while waiting at a charging station or, in a car sharing situation, whether the vehicle is prepared and cleaned for pickup.use. In the event that you lose your color-changing BMW in the parking lot, its entire body can flash so you can easily locate it without waking the kids or scaring the dogs with noisy panic mode.
If color-changing BMWs ever become available for public consumption, we expect Bimmer sales to skyrocket among the “willing bank robber” demographic, as it looks like it won’t be affordable technology at all.
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