A new Chameleon Coloring Technology is being introduced by Tecno for its first Mobile World Congress appearance, a device designed to produce a wide variety of color patterns when embedded into a device such as the back of a smartphone.

With Chameleon Coloring Technology, you can color your prisms with a full spectrum electrically controlled system, which uses a grid of micron-sized prisms that change direction under an electric field. With a precise control of the prism direction, light can be scattered in multiple wavelengths, creating a wide range of colorful iridescent effects.

The material does not give off light, but it does reflect light to produce colors. The software on the device allows for manual control of the micro-prism, giving users access to a total of 1600 different colors that can be changed manually or automatically based on battery status, music or notifications. This feature is highly durable since it can be done up to two million times over the course of a day.

Tecno is already familiar with color-changing backs. In 2020, it released the Techno Camon 19 Pro Mondrian Edition, featuring poly-chromatic photoisomer technology on its back panel that transformed shades when exposed to daylight’s UV radiation. The material can shift hues in a mere 0.03 seconds and has minimal energy consumption; one hundred changes throughout a day would use up just as much electricity as viewing a 5-minute video.

As of now, it is unclear which phone the company will bring this technology to. Hopefully, we will soon see this technology in smartphones.