Imagine a future where you buy a car in no particular color, and then customize it instantly -- in real-time from your phone or a button in the car, to change the entire color scheme both inside and outside.

MIT is working on just that with researchers out of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) developing a reprogrammable ink that has been called PhotoChromeleon, for obvious reasons. It has a chameleon-like ability to change color, and does so using an specially-created ink.

This ink is sprayed onto something and then each color can be tweaked by activating and deactivating specific light sources. The team explains: "For example, if you use a blue light, it would mostly be absorbed by the yellow dye and be deactivated, and magenta and cyan would remain, resulting in blue. If you use a green light, magenta would mostly absorb it and be deactivated, and then both yellow and cyan would remain, resulting in green".

ASUS announced its new ROG Phone II and then succeeded it before it was in gamers' hands with the even-better ROG Phone II Ultimate Edition... both with 120Hz displays. But what games can you run at 120FPS on it?

The list is continuously expanding, and as I went to get a final list for this from the ASUS forums -- an update on September 12 added a few new games. These new games include DOTA Underlords (can do 60-120FPS), The Wolf Among Us, Bomb Squad, Smashing Rush, Brawl Stars (around 90FPS) and even Google Earth now supports 120FPS.

ASUS does note that you might require "a change in the game settings" in order to enable higher FPS. ASUS is also asking anyone that finds a game that works at 120FPS to let them know, and they'll add it to the ever-growing list of 120FPS-capable games that will make full use of the ROG Phone II.

LG has announced its larger-than-life (and most wallets) 88-inch 8K OLED and 75-inch 8K LED smart TVs are available in some US retailers priced at $29,999 and $4999, respectively.

The flagship OLED88Z9 is the largest OLED TV ever made coming in at a huge 88 inches, perfect for that 8K resolution -- it's a far cry from the smaller 75-inch 8K NanoCell TV, but those 13 inches are going to cost you another $25K. Remember the 88-inch is also a beautiful OLED panel while the 75-inch model is 'just' LED.

LG is reinforcing that it has a "true 8K" TV in that it has worked with the International Committee for Display Metrology (ICDM) to make sure its 8K TVs meet their strict minimum standards. I went into detail on that here, but a TL;DR version is that LG has a "true 8K" TV and its competitors do not.

J.J. Abrams has just signed a huge deal with his production company Bad Robot Productions and WarnerMedia, in a deal reportedly worth $250 million according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Bad Robot Productions will made original series and movies for WarnerMedia and its divisions, something that will include HBO and Warner Bros. Pictures. All I'm hearing right now is "WB announces Man of Steel 2: Metallo directed by J.J. Abrams" -- please?

The new $250M deal will run through to 2024 and will include video games, digital content, original TV shows and movies for WarnerMedia. The deal won't stop Bad Robot from making content to sell to third-party companies, something that Abrams reportedly said was of the "utmost importance" reports THR.

GIGABYTE has just released its new AORUS CV27Q Tactical Gaming Monitor, if you couldn't already tell from the name its their new gaming display.

The new AORUS CV27Q features a 27-inch 1500R curved 8-bit VA panel offering 2560 x 1440 at 165Hz with a 1ms response time, with GIGABYTE adding that it covers 95% of the DCI-P3 color space.

One of the big bonuses here with the AORUS CV27Q Tactical Gaming Monitor is that you have AMD FreeSync HDR technology, but it is also NVIDIA G-SYNC compatible. This means you can have an NVIDIA GeForce or AMD Radeon series graphics card and still tap the adaptive refresh tech in the AORUS CV27Q.

Death Stranding is a huge open world game with tons of iconic geography to explore. Luckily Sam has an improvised hoverboard to zoom around on.

Today Hideo Kojima revealed tons of new info and details about Death Stranding. We got a huge one hour gameplay demo that illustrates stealth, action RPG aspects, tons of exploration, and some nifty surprises like a motorbike, enemy vehicle hijacking, and even a levitating hoverboard.

In Death Stranding, Sam has a little floating platform that follows behind him and hauls cargo. You can remove all the boxes off the platform and use it as a makeshift hoverboard, and Sam even does little push-offs straight out of Back to the Future Part II. I wonder if it works on water? Probably not...unless you've got power.

Nintendo's new Switch Fit peripheral is called the RingCon, and it comes with a game that turns exercise into an RPG.

Nintendo just made fitness into a fully-fledged RPG using a common pilates ring as a controller. The game is called Ring Fit Adventure, and it's all about beating a muscular bodybuilding dragon at his own game (yes, really).

JoyCons slot into the specially modified pilates ring (officially called the RingCon) and a leg strap for force feedback, accelerometer and gyroscopic tracking to record your movements. The gimmick is you'll use real-life exercises to do actions in the game world. To run in the game, you'll need to run in place. To climb steps, you'll have to do some knee-lifts. To paddle a canoe boat, you'll do some ab twists. Fire a bow by pulling the ring apart, and put up your defenses by tightening up your abs.

HTC's new Vive Cosmos headset will cost $699, putting it between the self-contained Vive Focus at $599 and the premium Vive Pro at $799.

The new Vive Cosmos VR HMD is built around ease-of-use and accessibility, and brings spec performance boosts over original Vive headset. The Cosmos has two 3.4-inch panels at 1440x1700 pixels per eye for a combined 2880x1700p or about 88% more pixels than the base Vive, complete with a 90Hz refresh rate and a 110-degree field of view.

The major difference is the Cosmos doesn't require base stations for movement tracking. It's outfitted with six cameras for inside-out tracking, making setting up a breeze. The Cosmos is also modular. HTC teased smartphone interactivity when the Cosmos was first announced, but the only mod that's official is an external tracking mod that allows you to use old Vive tracking base stations for improved immersion.

The Game Awards 2019 will be a big showcase celebrating video games, complete with worldwide reveals, gameplay, and tons of other announcements.

On December 12, the industry celebrates five years of The Game Awards. The show will be held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California, and host Geoff Keighley says it'll be tremendously special. We'll see 2019's best and brightest celebrated at the event, complete with new game reveals and much more--maybe even some next-gen console teases.

"This year's show will celebrate thea ct of creation, as I turn the stage over to a group of visionary teams selected to share their new projects with you," showrunner Geoff Keighley said.

Death Stranding looks like a high-tech fever dream and an evolution of everything Kojima has made up until now.

Hideo Kojima recently showed off an hour of new Death Stranding gameplay at Tokyo Game Show 2019, revealing intricate details behind his new action-based immersive sim. There's a distinct cinematic feel to the entire experience, complete with an otherworldly sci-fantasy visual flair that transcends most sci-fi today. The world is colorful, vibrant, almost dream-like, and the on-screen HUD markers are straight out of a Cyberpunk game.

But mechanically, Death Stranding is basically an action RPG that borrows from Metal Gear.