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BMW Just Built a Car That Can Animate Its Own Paint

The BMW iX Flow took the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show by storm. This was BMW’s interestingly styled electric SUV (that has somehow not been a roaring sales success—go figure), wrapped in E Ink, with a film containing millions of color capsules that would respond to electrical signals to create either negatively charged white or positively charged black pigments. The shifting hues could create various patterns or shapes, but the tech looked fairly rudimentary in its execution, wild as it was at the time.Then we were shown the i5 Flow Nostokana, with both colors and patterns, before BMW presented the i Vision Dee in Las Vegas, a concept that gave us a glimpse of what has become the new i3’s styling, but with richer colors on more advanced ePaper panels than those from CES. Now, BMW has taken another step forward with a concept called the iX3 Flow Edition and its …


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Author: Sebastian Cenizo

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