Electronic camouflage

8/18/2014

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Time (Aug. 19) -- Scientists have developed a color-changing device inspired by octopuses and their natural camouflaging techniques. The research, carried out by researchers at the University of Houston and an Illinois team led by John Rogers, a materials science and engineering professor, looked at how the skins of octopuses, squid and cuttlefish can change color so rapidly. Also: BBC News (Aug. 18), National Geographic (Aug. 18), Popular Mechanics (Aug. 18), Yahoo! News (Aug. 17), Gizmodo (Sydney, Aug. 19), News Ledge (Aug. 19), Nature World News (Aug. 19), Beta Boston (Aug. 19), Value Walk (Aug. 19), Argyll Free Press (Aug. 19), IEEE Spectrum (Aug. 18), Discovery News (Aug. 19), UPI.com (Aug. 18), Tech Times (Aug. 19), Red Orbit (Aug. 19), Design & Trend (Aug. 18), Gulf Times (Aug. 19), Capital OCT (Aug. 19), Ubergizmo (Aug. 19), Northern Voices Online (Aug. 19), NBC News (Aug. 19), Wall Street OTC (Aug. 19), Headlines & Global News (Aug. 19), Daily Digest News (Aug. 19), Science Recorder (Aug. 19), Engineering & Technology Magazine (Aug. 19), KSHB-TV (Kansas City, KS, Aug. 19), Techsonia (Aug. 19), Angle Chronicle (Aug. 19), Canada News Journal (Aug. 19), Dehli Daily News (India, Aug. 19), Guardian Liberty Voice (Aug. 18), Newsweek (Aug. 19), The Christian Science Monitor (Aug. 19), Science News (Aug. 19), WRTV (Indianapolis, Aug. 19), Dumb-Out (Aug. 19), News Tonight Africa (Aug. 20), Latino Post (Aug. 19), Engadget (New York City, Aug. 19), Mashable (Aug. 19), Popular Science (New York, Aug. 20), Fox News (Aug. 21), Yahoo! News (from Business Insider; Aug. 21), Scientific American (8/22), ASEE FirstBell (Aug. 22), WCBE-FM (NPR; Columbus, Ohio; Aug. 23).


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This story was published August 18, 2014.