Gizmodo: Chameleon

Bionic Truck Is Son of Pac-Man and Dune Sandworm

Jesus Diaz — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:30:41 EST

For whatever reason, designer Haishang Deng thinks that his centipede-inspired Chameleon Truck is the perfect next-generation truck. With its segmented body that can fit multiple sizes and its front-loading system—with a cockpit that lifts to open a big hungry mouth—he says that it will save time, ground personnel and money. Whatever. All I know is that if I see this on the rearview mirror, I will engage the TurboBoost. [Yanko Design]

Nissan Developing Color Changing Paint

Mark Wilson — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:24:00 EST

Soon all soccer moms will be James Bonds, changing the color of their car with the flip of a switch. That's because ~~Nissan~~ is developing a paramagnetic iron oxide paint polymer. Using an electrical charge, the arrangement of iron oxide crystals can be tweaked, adjusting the car's color. (It just so happens that metal-bodied cars make for excellent conductive surfaces.) But we're really excited over ~~Nissan's~~ surely bogus but juicy claim to have the technology on the market extremely soon, by 2010 if possible. Oh...except there's one catch.

~~Touching the car electrocutes you.~~ A small amount of current is always needed to maintain the arrangement of iron oxide (your custom car color). So when you leave your car parked/off, the car turns white. Now imagine your white car times 5000 during your next IKEA excursion. Yeah, it'll be like Florida, everywhere you go.

CORRECTION: This is not Nissan technology, they merely viewed a demo. [nextenergynews]

Chameleon USB: We Roll Our Eyes at Thee

Charlie White — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:45:28 EST

Taking a nosedive into absurdity and back, we bring you the USB-powered eye-rolling chameleon, and it's not even a storage device like that mutt humping the USB port that robbed us all of our precious dignity earlier this week. No sir, no such prurient mirth here. This is just a plug-in USB ornament that rolls its eyes while sticking its tongue out. Over and over.

So there it is, gripping your PC or a pencil or something cylindrical with its little legs, and it's not even able to change colors. Obnoxious? Indeed. Desirable? For about a minute we liked it, now we don't; our affection for it is chameleon-like. – Charlie White

USB Powered Eye Rolling Chameleon [Everything USB, via uber gizmo]

Chameleon Eye Mini Wide-Angle Camera

Noah R — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:58:19 EST

Sony Japan announced that it will release the Chameleon Eye Camera RPU-C1833. It features a 180-degree field of vision, which is impressive for its tiny size—1.5 x 1.2x 1.1 inch and 2.3 ounces. It's a 3-Mio Pixel camera with a frame rate of 16 fps. The intended use is for ATMs to replace ceiling-mounted surveillance cams. But it might be fun to carry one of these around and see what kind of pics it makes. Available March 2006 for $900.

Sony Press Release