Colours

Gadgets

Pantone Ornaments Will Make You Wish It Was Christmas All Year

9:40AM October 21, 2011 | Mario Aguilar

As the paragon of pretty paint colours Pantone should really be celebrated all year. Who cares if it’s not remotely Christmas yet? These Pantone bulbs are so cool you should go poach a pine tree from the forest right now. More »


Geek Out

Things That Aren’t Available In Pantone Colours But Should Be

7:20AM August 26, 2011 | Sam Biddle

I saw these baseball bats and thought, Wow, Pantone baseball bats, I’d love to smash something up real good with something so sophisticated. But it turns out they’re not. Well screw that to hell. They should be, along with these… More »


Geek Out

Indigo Smoke Bombs Are So Mesmerizing

10:00AM February 27, 2011 | Casey Chan

The video description says it’s a 60 second experiment with the colour Indigo but that’s sort of underselling the beauty of it. There is indigo, yes, but also beautiful smoke, dyed colours and sparks! I don’t know why but I’ve watched it 10 times already. [Paul Octavious via Mappeal] More »


Mobile

HTC Paints Its Already Stunning Legend, Desire

9:10PM October 4, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Daily readers know we rarely comment on colour changes, so when a new shade crosses our pages, you know it’s worth ogling. The HTC Legend, which in my opinion is the most gorgeous phone around, now comes in black. More »


Online

The Most Powerful Colours On The Web

1:00PM September 18, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

These are the top 100 web brands – from computer companies to search engines to social websites to porn sites – ordered by colour. Apparently, the “top brands within categories tend to use similar colour palettes”. More »


Science

Meet Neil, A Real-Life Cyborg Who Hears Colours

2:40AM June 5, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Twenty-eight-year-old Neil Harbisson has achromatopsia, which means he only sees in black and white. You’ll notice in his photo however, that he’s wearing a camera mounted to his head. This converts colours into soundwaves – making him “hear” colours. More »


What Is This?

3:47AM March 13, 2010 | Brian Barrett

What could this be? A futuristic mood ring? The view from inside a wormhole? Nah. Those are too abstract. This is based on something all too real and totally inescapable. More »


Pleo Brought Back From Extinction, Decide What Colour He’ll Wear

10:52PM February 3, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

We’ve been through so many ups and downs with Pleo. We saw him crumble in the face of a battlebot. We cried over his extinction. We rejoiced when he survived! And now, we choose his colour. More »


What If Computer Graphics Ran Under Crayola’s Law?

5:00PM January 18, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

I love this timeline, showing the evolution of Crayola crayons from 1903 – eight colours, including poop – to 120 colours today. Now, imagine PC graphics running on Crayola’s Law, which states that the number of hues doubles every 28 years… More »


One CMYK Spray Can Holds Thousands Of Colours

4:40AM December 31, 2009 | Mark Wilson

What if, instead of defiling your local school, church or train yard with just a few colours of spray paint, one can contained a near infinite array of expression? More »