You will be soon able to change colors like a chameleon. Yes, it's true as a textile designer has successfully designed an interactive electronic fabric well capable of changing colors in seconds using a number of electronic devices.

"My main interest in textile design is the dynamically changing surfaces, structures, integrating interactive technologies into textiles. The patterns are generated from sound files. The heat sensitive static patterns create dynamically changing patterns", said Budapest-based textile designer Judit Eszter Karpati who created the interactive fabric using computer programming, engineering and electronic devices.

Arduino (a microcontroller with 12V power supply) and custom PCBs (printed circuit boards) driving and controlling four industrial 24V DC power supplies are fitted in the fabric. This helps in providing heat to two handmade textile woven with nichrome wires and screen-printed with thermochromatic dying.

Karpati also said that it would be possible for users to leave traces on the surface of the fabric through the sense of touch. The designer said that knowledge from further researches would certainly enable them to make this fabric wearable one day.

Arduino will help in making the application of interactive objects or environments more accessible. Karpati said that she always wanted to figure out ways to incorporate the world of digital media into textile art.

Ambient content is presented by the two slow moving textile displays. Environmental impulses cause some kind of reaction in the fabric and it responds through an animated change in pattern. The fabric changes colors in seconds and works with the help of number of electronic devices.