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E Ink’s New Colour E-Paper Looks Almost as Good as LCD Screens
With the first E Ink devices having debuted almost two decades ago, it’s been a long road transitioning the technology from black and white to colour. But yesterday, E Ink revealed some tantalising details on its latest colour electronic paper panels, Spectra 6, with colour reproduction that looks almost as good as what you can…
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Why Aren’t There Mammals in Super Vivid Colours Like There Are Birds and Bugs?
Plumage. An incredible world, for an incredible phenomenon. Say it with me now: plumage. Picture the colours, their variety and richness. Picture, while you’re at it, some other stuff relevant to this week’s Giz Asks, such as bugs that look shaped from stained glass and sea creatures that look like they’ve been doused in neon…
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Starving Artists and Design Students Can Afford This Cheap but Accurate Real-Life Colour Picker
Check the camera roll on any designer’s smartphone and you’ll find hundreds of random images they snapped for inspiration or because they simply liked a colour. But it’s not the best tool for the job. A dedicated colour detector is far more accurate, and with Datacolor’s new ColorReader EZ, it’s no longer an obscenely expensive…
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These Are The Colours That Words Make When Used As Hex Code
Hexadecimal format allows us to instruct a computer to display a colour using three or six characters. For example, #000 will produce black. But how many words can be created in Hex and what colours do they produce? One intrepid programmer has tackled this problem so that we don’t have to.