Eizo Display Makes Colors Visible to the Colorblind

• November 26th, 2007 | General

Eizo Corporation (pronounced EH-EE-ZO) is a company best known for manufacturing display screens for all sorts of devices from personal computers, to video game machines, to medical devices. With their latest 24 inch display they are going where no computer monitor or Television has gone before–they’re making color visible to the colorblind. Of course, Eizo’s Flexscan SX2461W-U doesn’t literally allow colorblind people to see colors, but it does perform a trick that allows them to understand roughly what colors are supposed to be where.

What the display does is not only display colors for those of us who can see colors, but also, with the help of a miniature computer, displays the patterns behind the colors. This allows colorblind viewers to see different shapes to make up patterns that tip viewers off as to different colors existing. In theory, they could get really obnoxious and, instead of using random patterns for the colors, they could use words like “RED” and “BLUE” to really get the point across.

While this technology is currently only available as a computer display, eventually technology like this could mean a whole new kind of viewing experience for the color-impaired out there. If you happen to be able to read Japanese, swing by Eizo’s product page for the SX2461W-U or you can hang around Eizo’s English-language website until they update their site.

[source: Engadget & AkihabaraNews]