HELP is at hand for colour blind or visually impaired people who have trouble
picking the right-coloured, or non-clashing, clothes from their wardrobe. At the
touch of a button, the hand-held ColorTalk gadget from Hokkei Industry of
Kanazawa, Japan, will identify the colour of any garment and tell you—in
Japanese—what it is. Further language versions are planned, the company
says.
The device is about the size and weight of a mobile phone, and will read out
the colour of any object held up to its sensor. ColorTalk recognises 13 standard
colours, combined with several modifiers such as “bright”…
