Colour changing laptop

Toshiba’s new Dynabook Qosmio T750 has a lid that changes colour. The metallic colours appear in a range from turquoise to deep blue and purple, depending upon your angle of view. It sounds rather like iridescent silk fabric.

Toshiba says the looks is created by layering polyester laminate films, using nano-technology.

If this becomes popular, I can foresee more advanced technology being used. A thin membrane of conductive material with electrically-sensitive chemicals could wrap the laptop case. Varying current inputs could create an ever changing colour display, like a 60s lightshow.

Several laptop brands have lighted logos or symbols on their laptop lids. A colour changer would be a lot more interesting.