Kits of materials allowing one to create a custom EL display have been around for at least 25 years and the basic materials aren’t especially hard to get or make. So whatever is patent-pending from this manufacturer isn’t exactly breaking through major barriers to bring EL tech to DIY enthusiasts. Which seems to be exactly the impression intended from this post.

Finally I can have the proper Repo Man style glowing car.

I’m not sure about  the possibility of different colors, even after watching the video… looks pretty monochrome.  That’s how the LCD and e-ink started, though.

http://youtu.be/NLnG0JQNbyg?t=8s

Gloriously cool possibilities. My Frazetta-style unicorn custom van is going to rock.

Seriously, though, since things like the de-icing elements on car windows are already screen-printed, I see no reason that this can’t be.

Since all motor vehicles use the chassis as common ground, pretty much everything has electricity going through it all the time anyways.

Is it really wise to apply an electrical charge to a metal container containing a highly flammable liquid?

Glow-in-the-dark paint which takes a light charge would look much the same. And you will notice that they do not really show “turning it on and having it light up” much…just one shot that looks like a TABLET, which would of course light up without any paint at all.

That dragon head is uber cool. Show turning it on! Prove it’s not just glow-paint. Show me this stuff painted on a window, or a board. Most of these shots look like the design is placed over a tablet.

Simple “duh, why didn’t we think of that in the 19th century” things like this make me still think we’ll stumble on a solution to faster-than-light travel someday and just go “man, the answer was right there in front of us all the time!”