BMW's shape-changing concept

(Credit: BMW)

If you've seen the latest Knight Rider series recently, you may have noticed that K.I.T.T. (Knight Industries Three Thousand) embraces a type of nano technology that lets its outer shell change colors and temporarily morph into other car forms. How cool is that? If BMW has its way, that part of the reel world would be made real.

The carmaker'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. This gives the owner the flexibility to change the shape of the car, from within and without, all with the touch of a button.

But we suspect that, by the time this ever hits the road, we may well have taken to the skies for our daily commute.

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by opwann June 12, 2008 12:49 PM PDT

very cool.

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by calculatorwatch June 12, 2008 10:22 PM PDT

awesome idea, I especially love the minimalistic look of the interior and the headlights that open like eyes, I don't like how the fabric folds into ripples when the doors open though

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