Very interesting look on how the color blind see things compared to normal sight. picked by Muppetmaker 2 years ago

Two male squirrel monkeys were given gene therapy and now the normally color blind animals are able to distinguish between shades of red and green in color vision tests. In normal situations, female squirrel monkeys can see a full range of colors, but males cannot see red or green. picked by Bingo 2 months ago

Use this little app so you can create a color on the screen (or copy-paste CSS hex# color) and find out the name of the closest matching color. You can also select from the dropdown list of 1500+ colors and then play around. picked by misswinkle 2 years ago

an Interesting little web toy picked by gamaxray 1 year ago

Using a device that coverts 360 colors into different sounds, Neil Harbisson can now paint with all the correct colors, taking his art to a new level. picked by MUPpetMAKer 2 years ago

What color is water? It is a question that many children ask, not to mention adults, and the answer is invariably that it has no color. It is transparent, clear, see through. So, which answer is the correct one? picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

A whole site dedicated to color. I definetly bookmarked this. picked by LatueOfStiberty 3 years ago

Like death and taxes, there is no escaping color. It is ubiquitous. Yet what does it all mean? Why are people more relaxed in green rooms? Why do weightlifters do their best in blue gyms? picked by wags273 2 years ago

Tenebraex has created a technology that lets color blind folks "see" colors using the camera function on their cell phones picked by Purzhia 3 years ago

"The Old Masters of painting spent years of their lives learning about color. Why let all their effort go to waste on the walls of some museum when it could be used to give you a hand with color correction?" picked by 2manyusernames 3 years ago

The traces of organic material found in fossil feathers are remnants of pigments that once gave birds their color, according to Yale scientists whose paper in Biology Letters opens up the potential to depict the original coloration of fossilized birds and their ancestors, the dinosaurs. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Blind pilot Miles Hilton-Barber felt euphoric when he touched down at Sydney's Bankstown Airport just before 8am, becoming the first blind man to fly halfway around the world.

Update on an earlier post. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Today I acquired a set of color pencil devices. picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

An exhibition called "Dialogue in the Dark 2007 Tokyo" is the place where sighted people are guided by blind people through several specially constructed darkened rooms to help dicover the unseen. picked by maxriter 2 years ago

What color will alien plants be? The question matters scientifically because the surface color of a planet can reveal whether anything lives there—specifically, whether organisms collect energy from the parent star by the process of photosynthesis. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

This is really neat! You can search Flickr images by their color. I'm linking to the color combination I just searched, but you can delete them by clicking the little Oscar-the-Grouch-style trash cans on the color rectangles on the right. picked by yoornotme 1 year ago

T-mobile, a german mobile phones comany has registerd the color magenta and claim it as "theirs". no other company or person shal use it for selling products. picked by kamaloo 2 years ago

A computer program that learns to decode sounds from different languages in the same way that a baby does helps to shed new light on how people learn to talk. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Soon we won't be able to short change sightless people anymore. picked by tomphoolry 3 years ago

Known as selective bilateral occipital damage, TN’s unusual injury made him the subject of much interest while recovering at a hospital in Geneva. Researchers began examining him and discovered that despite his blindness, he had maintained the ability to detect emotion on a person’s face. He responded appropriately — with emotions such as joy, fear, and anger &#... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago