The idea of temporary paint jobs for your car has been around for a while but lets face it, it's a hassle. Paint company Akzo Nobel came out with their Maskin paint that was paint on-peel off. Their target market was for the average creative consumer but also for advertisement companies who wanted to use that vehicle (no pun intended) of advertisement of putting different signs and whatnot on cars.
Nissan just recently came out with a more hassle-free way to change the color of your car. Using the advent of self-healing paint from two years ago, the word is that their paramagnetic paint enables the driver to change the color of the car at the press of a button. The secret? A "special polymer containing paramagnetic iron oxide particles" which when you put on the car, the "applied electric current then adjusts the spacing of small crystals within the iron oxide particles, and therefore affects their ability to reflect light and change color." In lay terms, the microscopic particles of the paint allows a shift of light to reflect off the paint surface and change colors.
All this is really a great evolution from the brick-and-mortar approach to changing a car's paint job, which is altogether a hassle and expensive. Now, all you need is some polymer coating and the paint job of your car won't be as much of an issue.
-Rack of Lam
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