It links parents to their children from their tender age in the privacy of the home. It awakens emotional relationships between brands and their customers and cities with their citizens and visitors. It theatralizes color architecturally while creating impactful facades.

ChromoPix is a platform technology which promotes a colorful world.

As part of a course jointly offered by the Harvard GSD and the John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, in collaboration with the Wyss Institute, we investigated biological phenomena in nature and chose one to extrapolate from into a platform technology. The final deliverable of the course was a pitch for a product or a technology that could have a family of applications.

We investigated real-time camouflage systems found within the skin of certain cephalopods (octopuses and squids) and tried understanding the mechanism so as to be able to find relevant applications using either the principle or the mechanism. Embedded within the skin of cephalopods, a chromatophore organ - a cell system equipped with a sac (cytoelastic sacculus) which is deflated and distended with colored pigments and radial muscle cells at will akin to humans moving fingers - controls the ripple of colors seen on the skin of the organism.