Yes, you read it right. You may soon be able to change the colours of the Apple Watch band to match your outfit. At least, that is what Apple seems to be working on, as it has been granted a patent for a colour-changing Apple Watch band.
Not just different colours but the band may also show “icons, shapes, and text. Also, apart from matching your outfit, the band could change colour when a notification comes.”
“Users may desire the ability to customise their watch bands to express variety and style,” says the patent for “Watch Band With Adjustable Colour,” first spotted by Patently Apple.
The document further reads, “For example, a user may desire a watch band of a particular colour based on the user’s selection of clothing, other wearable articles, environment, or another preference.”
One watch band for all your outfits
Apple, in the patent, says that watches already allow users to customise by allowing them to remove and replace watch bands. But that means that users must have a separate watch band for a different colour for each combination. And the users would need to remove and replace the watch bands whenever they want to try out a new combination.
Apple seems to have figured out a way to make watch bands change colour. Apple’s patent describes the Watch bands as having “electrochromic features,” which can display a range of colours and colour combinations with the application of small electric currents.
Although the patent aims to cover all potential applications of its main concept, the primary examples focus on bands made from a fabric woven with filaments. Per the patent, the electrochromic features can be present in some or all filaments with a conductor and an electrochromic layer.
Apple states that the watch band’s colour can be selected and modified using an app, preferably the Watch app, thus eradicating the need to remove or replace the band. So users would not need different bands of different colours.
The idea of colour-changing watch bands does sound fascinating and straight out of the future. But it seems still too early for it to be a reality, but maybe one day we will not need to buy a new band for different outfits.
Not just different colours but the band may also show “icons, shapes, and text. Also, apart from matching your outfit, the band could change colour when a notification comes.”
“Users may desire the ability to customise their watch bands to express variety and style,” says the patent for “Watch Band With Adjustable Colour,” first spotted by Patently Apple.
The document further reads, “For example, a user may desire a watch band of a particular colour based on the user’s selection of clothing, other wearable articles, environment, or another preference.”
One watch band for all your outfits
Apple, in the patent, says that watches already allow users to customise by allowing them to remove and replace watch bands. But that means that users must have a separate watch band for a different colour for each combination. And the users would need to remove and replace the watch bands whenever they want to try out a new combination.
Apple seems to have figured out a way to make watch bands change colour. Apple’s patent describes the Watch bands as having “electrochromic features,” which can display a range of colours and colour combinations with the application of small electric currents.
Although the patent aims to cover all potential applications of its main concept, the primary examples focus on bands made from a fabric woven with filaments. Per the patent, the electrochromic features can be present in some or all filaments with a conductor and an electrochromic layer.
Apple states that the watch band’s colour can be selected and modified using an app, preferably the Watch app, thus eradicating the need to remove or replace the band. So users would not need different bands of different colours.
The idea of colour-changing watch bands does sound fascinating and straight out of the future. But it seems still too early for it to be a reality, but maybe one day we will not need to buy a new band for different outfits.
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