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After trying out the app, which uses the phone's camera to recognize colors and then states them aloud, Seraphin wrote, "My mind felt blown. I watched the sunset, listening to the colors change as the sky darkened. The next night, I had a conversation with mom about how the sky looked bluer tonight." While his life has somewhat changed, Seraphin remains skeptical of technology as a fix-all. "[Every] golden Apple has a golden worm at its center," he wrote.
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Subscribe to commentsqurkyzvytzSep 27th 2010 4:40PM
Maybe someone can tell me! How can a person who doesn't recognize colors tell (in his mind's eye - no pun intended) what a color looks like? For example, if the person has never seen blue, how do they know what blue is and what it looks like? Just asking!
robin23502Sep 27th 2010 7:53PM
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I'm thinking that this is intended for the blind people that were previously sighted, and know what a particular color looks like, or for people with limited vision.
kmercy5680Sep 27th 2010 4:54PM
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Colors can be "translated" into feelings such as blue/cool, red/hot, pink/sweet etc. Since your body actually has a physical change when viewing color, this isn't too far off for a visually impaired person.
micerySep 27th 2010 5:04PM
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Maybe they look at it as a feeling. yellow - happy. Blue - sad
Maybe it's just a name.
edcantarellaSep 27th 2010 5:57PM
Animals that have been color blind(monkey) previously, have been being injected with genes that allow them to see colors. Within weeks they figure out which colors indacte better fruit,etc. Maybe the app can use it's color recognition along with shape recognition to identify signs. And a blind person could be taught to combine certain variations of certain colrs to dress better. A blind person might be comforted to know that their choice of dark trousers, white shirt and a color tie should, statistically, look nice together. Or at the grocery store, they might like their app telling them - "this steak looks a little grey around the edges".
bapstkoSep 27th 2010 6:10PM
Color Identifier uses the camera on your iPhone or iPod touch to speak the names of colors in real-time.
PheonixredwenchSep 27th 2010 10:40PM
@(Unverified) It's not a matter of not having SEEN colors so much as being able to IDENTIFY them. Just as you like to color coordinate, so do the blind & visually impaired. (Nothing like finding out all too late you've worn a pale color over top black undergarments.) Something sighted people take for granted can be a hardship for non-sighted. Before the newer technologies came about, color identification required the assistance of a sighted person braille tagging clothing or other personal effects. You can imagine how time consuming that can become on laundry day. Now there are audio spectrometers but those can be quite costly. Many blind & visually imapired already have cell phones. Being able to add an application for color identification is very convienient not to mention cost effective.
DagiSep 27th 2010 7:13PM
This is great news. I need to tell my son about this since he is color blind.