BMW's shape-shifting car

Juniper Foo | Jun 12, 2008

If you've caught the latest Knight Rider series recently, you'd have noticed that K.I.T.T. (Knight Industries Three Thousand) embraces nano technology which lets its outer shell change colors and morph into similar car forms temporarily. How cool is that? Now it seems the reel world has been made real. BMW's GINA Light Visionary Model, a two-seater concept car, wears a flexible, virtually seamless skin made of a textile fabric and stretched over a metal wire structure enforced with carbon fiber. What this does is to give the owner flexibility to change the shape of the car as he fancies, from within and without. All at the touch of a button. Just too bad this will sit in the research labs for another decade before BMW design chief Chris Bangle reckons such cool tech will hit the roads. By then, we may well have taken to the skies for our daily commute. Meanwhile, check Gina out in the YouTube video below.