Choose a Car Color Anytime

One of the age-old car shopping head-scratchers is trying to figure out what color to buy. People stay away from black because it gets too dirty. White is too boring; ditto silver. Bright yellow may be fun for a day or two, but then the novelty wears off.

Non-committal shoppers may have a solution in paramagnetic paint. Like the name suggests, this new polymer uses a magnetic field to change a car’s color at the touch of a button. The default color of the car is white but by running a different frequency magnetic field through the paint, drivers can change the car color to virtually anything along the color spectrum. And it only takes a second for the change to take place.

This sounds great for any car — not so great for cops chasing the green Honda … no wait … purple Honda … where’d that guy go? — although there is no word on how expensive the technology will be or if any major manufacturer or aftermarket company will be selling it.

Scientists Develop Auto Paint That Changes Color With the Press of a Button (NextEnergyNews)