Rather than purchase different coloured scarves to match your outfits, you can now wait with baited breath for the Chameleon Scarf. Developed at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, the scarf has been dubbed the Chameleon Shawl and automatically changes colour to co-ordinate with your chosen outfit.

Sounds crazy, but it’s been created, and had its first demonstration at the International Symposium on Wearable Computing in Osaka, Japan, in October 2005.

[newscientist.com]