heironymouscoward's Journal: More Damn Prior Art - 2

Cars should be able to show emotions. I'm not just talking about the brake lights that shine brighter when you brake harder, I'm talking about a fully controllable paint job that can flick from blue to red, to green and back.

When some jerk drives too close behind me, my car will start to glow angry red. "Back off, dude!" When the cops are prowling, the car goes discreet black, "nothing to see here, move on."

When it rains, the car will turn violent neon yellow, visible from a mile away. When it's beautiful blue weather, it will turn a reflective silver, a gleaming mirror.

And finally, when it's parked in my street, in one of the worse areas of town, it will look rusty and cracked, a poor man's car.

Implementation: an all-over digital skin made from the same stuff those building-size disposable flatscreens are made of. (Yeah, we're 2010 already!)