Over the last decade or so, since the major development of the smartphone, we’ve seen the world alter before our very eyes. Now, solutions such as Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are common parts of the entire experience from day-to-day life. That being said, the latest changes from ChroMorphus, things might be about to take a whole new step forward.

At the moment, a single tap of our smartphone could do anything from call our dinner to change the music playing on a speaker. You have so many options for controlling day-to-day life around yourself using a smartphone. With ChroMorphus, though, things are totally changing what is likely to be possible.

This tech plan, a user-controlled color-altering piece of fabric, was created at The University of Central Florida by The College of Optics and Photonics. It allows for the change and alteration of the pattern of a piece of fabric using the mobile app.

Rather than merely being another light-based gimmick, this provides you with a physical transformation on the fabric itself. The fibers are made from a raw material grouping in Melbourne, Florida, and is shipped back to the team at the University. It’s then ‘hacked’ with a micro-wirer fitting into each thread, so that they can raise the local temperature on-demand to help adjust the pigment.

A New Step for Clothing and Textiles

This unique and interesting idea at first sound a little weird, but the idea behind it is sound. With everything around us being enshrined in technology, why should our clothing be any different?

While the fabric is likely to feel a touch rougher than the normal fabrics that we are used to, which will definitely put some people off, it appears the majority are quite interested in the idea. With the group already working on building up a whole host of new fabrics to make them smoother and less likely to become discomforting when being used, the long-term aim is to make it impossible to tell the difference here.

Since the wiring actually sits within the fiber itself, there’s no means for the artificial nature of the material to shine through. It’s far less obvious than other takes on this kind of technology in the past, and already breaks away from some of the conventional limitations that similar tools had come with in the past.

With the single tap of a button on the ChroMorphus app, one can change the shape and the layout of the textile that they are working with. It’s all very interesting, and it’s going to help make sure that we can get the very most out of the things that technology promised us for so long; total freedom over everything, including the color of our clothing!