Researchers have found a cost-effective method to turn ordinary walls into intelligent infrastructure-just by rolling on a high-tech paint coat. The Paint was founded by a Carnegie Mellon University team and Disney Research–the entertainment conglomerate unit.
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The Paint can track the users' gestures and estimate the pose of the user's body if he or she is close. In addition, it can discover appliances' location by capturing electromagnetic noise from the air. Paint permits users to control smart home functions, such as turning light on the wall, alerting a user elsewhere when an electric kettle is switched off, or recognizing the gestures of users playing video games—all for about US$ 20 per square meter.
The paint compound produces solar energy and moist air hydrogen fuel mixed with titanium oxide. Companies that utilize this simple addition of the new material can convert a brick wall into energy-harvesting and fuel-production real estate. Moreover, the Paint doesn't need a clean or filtered water supply.
With water vapor in the air, every place can generate fuel in remote areas far from water. For example, companies can utilize this product in Hong Kong with a Mediterranean-type climate. Such invention carries the key to serving higher energy costs. This invention also has the potential for developing and underdeveloped countries. The Paint will complement the photovoltaic solar panels in an area where moisture is more.
A new high-tech paint that cools when open to the sun promises to cool urban buildings better. The Israeli company SolCold possesses a technology that uses a double-layered paint coating to reduce temperatures by 10 degrees Celsius.
There are two layers of Paint—the outer nano-filter, which blocks the sun's rays, and the inner layer, which turns the heat on the surface to cool light. When used on the roof of a building, Paint can save up to 60% of the cost of air conditioning, with financial and environmental benefits.
Smart Paint will reshape the smart city of the future. Smart Paint will help the city regulate the greenhouse effect, lowering energy bills, and filter water. The future holds potential, which requires a government shift in its mindset.
