This isn't the first time the concept of color -
changing electronic skins has been tossed around, but Philips is a big name, and they have big plans that extend beyond your portable gadgets.
Not exact matches
The resulting
electronic skin recognizes pokes and prods as
changes in electric resistance.
Future possible applications could include the creation of «
electronic skin» and prosthetic limbs that allow wearers to «feel»
changes in their environments.
Existing
electronic skins can sense temperature
changes of less than a tenth of a degree Celsius across a 5 - degree temperature range.
The new
skin can sense
changes that are an order of magnitude smaller and have a responsivity that is two orders of magnitude larger than those of other
electronic skins over a 45 - degree temperature range.
Now, however, researchers in China have developed a new type of user - interactive
electronic skin, with a colour
change perceptible to the human eye, and achieved with a much - reduced level of strain.
Other than the outer shell, the
changes to the 2016 A6 are buried deep beneath the
skin, detailed
electronic upgrades of the sort that wows the crowds that throng to consumer electronics shows.