From Gizmodo
Colour-Changing Threads Might One Day Turn Your T-Shirt Into A Screen
By Andrew Liszewski
Look around and count the number of screens surrounding you. You’ll probably run out of fingers before you’re done, but why stop there? Researchers at UC Berkeley have come up with a way to weave colour-changing threads into fabrics, turning even garments into yet another display.
The team behind this technology, which they call Ebb, developed it to explore how fashion and clothing would change if the wearer could adjust the colour whenever they wanted to. Using thermochromatic threads that change their hue when a voltage is applied, a garment could be perfectly colour-matched to almost anything — or simply programmed to never be white after Labor Day....
...the demo video does show the researchers, led by Laura Devendorf, dabbling in recreating a simple segmented alphanumeric display like you’d find on an alarm clock....
The research project was conducted by School of Information Ph.D. students Laura Devendorf and Noura Howell, School of Information professor Kimiko Ryokai, and researchers from Google’s Project Jacquard.