What color is the world?

If you’re color blind, knowing the color of objects is not only important on computers and the web... it’s important in the rest of your life as well.

At Tenebraex, we are developing software and prototypes to help you do just that.  Today, most people carry a cell phone with a camera in it.  With an eyePilot-enabled phone, you will able to easily and unobtrusively use your cell phone’s camera to tell you the actual color of the objects around you... like that tie in the store or the routes on that subway map.

While to the rest of the world it looks like you are sending a text message or looking at your calendar,  the eyePilot software will show you an image from your camera with a crosshair superimposed on it. Whatever object you place in that crosshair, eyePilot will tell you what color it is!  Simple, practical and discrete.

Machine controls and color blindness
 

One out of twelve men is color blind.

Factory machines used to be controlled by simple dials, knobs and switches, No more; today, the color CRT has replaced most of the old controls and machines and processes are controlled through a sophisticated computer interface that uses color to represent operational status, control options and warnings.

But what if the person operating the machine is color blind? What if that operator has difficulty telling if the machine is overheating or a valve has stuck? The costs can be high.

Mouse over the image at left to see what a control screen can look like to some red/green color blind workers.

Tenebraex is developing eyePilot interfaces for machine tool controls that allow any operator to quickly and easily adjust the display so that he can clearly understand all those color-coded messages.

An eyePilot-enabled machine tool interface is low-cost and easy to implement.  It is a reasonable accommodation that can prevent big problems down the road.