{"id":122274,"date":"2021-05-04T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T06:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/mits-programmable-matter-technique-a-zap-of-light-switches-objects-colors-and-patterns"},"modified":"2021-05-04T23:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T06:23:00","slug":"mits-programmable-matter-technique-a-zap-of-light-switches-objects-colors-and-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/mits-programmable-matter-technique-a-zap-of-light-switches-objects-colors-and-patterns","title":{"rendered":"MIT\u2019s \u201cProgrammable Matter\u201d Technique: A Zap of Light Switches Objects\u2019 Colors and Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mits-programmable-matter-technique-a-zap-of-light-switches-objects-colors-and-patterns.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> \u201cProgrammable matter\u201d technique could enable product designers to churn out prototypes with ease.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When was the last time you repainted your car? Redesigned your coffee mug collection? Gave your shoes a colorful facelift?<\/p>\n<p>You likely answered: never, never, and never. You might consider these arduous tasks not worth the effort. But a new color-shifting \u201cprogrammable matter\u201d system could change that with a zap of light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cProgrammable matter\u201d technique could enable product designers to churn out prototypes with ease. When was the last time you repainted your car? Redesigned your coffee mug collection? Gave your shoes a colorful facelift? You likely answered: never, never, and never. You might consider these arduous tasks not worth the effort. But a new color-shifting \u201cprogrammable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}