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Pick up any recent magazine, newspaper, or product package, and you might not realise all that goes into the colourful designs before you. Watch in awe as this video shows you the artistry, and science, used at the very core of print design—the inks.
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More than a decade before The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind gave colour motion pictures wide notoriety, Kodak was conducting Kodachrome tests. The result: a series vibrant, full colour moving portraits bursting out of 1922.
Are your Facebook photos of the same boring friends standing around drinking beer getting a bit drab? Photojojo’s pocket-size lens and flash colour filters should jazz things up, letting you saturate your scenes with one of eight sturdy acrylic chips.
According to a report by Bloomberg, Amazon will release a thinner Kindle this August, with a crisper, more responsive screen. But e-ink fans waiting for the full-colour, mulittouch mega-Kindle will have to wait a while longer.
It’s one of those things that I’m surprised took this long to come to fruition. The Pantone Hotel, each room decorated in one of seven colour palettes, even offers colour consultants for colour psychology and trends. Gulp.
Screen tech in mobile phones has come a long way. The first handsets, like the Motorola DynaTAC could only display a row of numbers on an LED display. Now, imagine that. Your mobile phone can only display one row of characters. Simple tasks we take for granted today, like looking through a phone book, become incredibly difficult.
Buried amongst 15 patents granted to Apple this week by the US Patent and Trademark Office is one that describes colour correction – for a stand-alone camera. Not an iPhone camera, a compact camera.
LCD displays aren’t exactly made for the outdoors. You have to squint, tilt the screen, and adjust the brightness to decipher anything in bright sunlight. But with NEC’s new colour-compensation chip that will hopefully be an issue of the past.
