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color blindness

  • Screenshots from the Color Binoculars app
    Good Thinking
    Microsoft app caters to the colorblind
    ​In most cases of colorblindness, people can actually see colors, but they have difficulty telling them apart. While there are glasses that help enhance contrast, they cost several hundred dollars. That's why two Microsoft software engineers developed a free iOS app that does much the same job.
  • On the left is an Ishihara test plate - if you're not color blind you should be able to see some figures - while on the right is a clarified image using the DanKam filter, which should be visible to those who are color blind
    Mobile Technology
    DanKam app clears up color blind confusion
    Online security expert Dan Kaminsky has developed and released a smartphone app which applies filters to images and video to help those suffering from color blindness to see colors that would otherwise remain invisible.