Journalist Staci Kramer interviewed Jeff Bezos about The Kindle. One of the questions she asked him was: “Is color something you want to see eventually?”
Kindle evangelist Jeff Bezos, chairman and CEO of Amazon responds: “We would love to have color but electronic ink doesn’t do color.”
So what is electronic ink you asked? The source of the electronic ink for Kindle explains it as (more…)
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Thanks to Janice Lindsey of PINK for sharing this site with some stunningly beautiful color images.
I think you’ll be surprised at what this is a picture of. Would you believe mice brains in 90 colors! See all of the pictures here…
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Women see one color differently then men do: RED
Why?
It turns out there’s a perfectly good reason why men can’t see what is so obvious to women: the many variations–some subtle, some bold–of the color red.
Reuters reports that researchers from Arizona State University in Tempe have determined there is a gene that allows us to see the color red, and that gene comes in a high number of variations.
Because the gene sits on the X chromosome–and women have two X chromosomes and so two copies of this gene, compared with only one for men–the gene aids women’s ability to perceive the red-orange color spectrum. The study findings were reported in the American Journal of Human Genetics.
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I keep an eye on the science and research publications to see what may be on the horizon for color in the future.
Even if I don’t fully understand the impact of the latest reserch it still sparks my imagination and opens my mind to new possiblities for the future as well as for using the materials available to me today.
This week Chemical Technology: A magazine highlighting the latest applications and technological aspects of research across the chemical sciences reports:
A simple process for preparing light-emitting layers of silica with wide colour variation has been developed by Italian scientists. (more…)
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Wouldn’t it be fun to have a single pair of glasses with lenses that can be transparent or dark, and in shades of yellow, green or purple, all on command?
Such color-changing glasses may soon be a reality thanks to a new lens with chameleon powers developed by scientists at Washington University in Seattle.
Chunye Xu, University of Washington
The glasses use “smart” plastics that change colour are made of a new material uniquely suited to the task: a low-cost sheet that changes color and shade using almost no power.
Chunye Xu, research assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Washington and her collaborators on the project have a number of patents filed on the technology. (more…)
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Sounding like something that may have originally been conceived on the set of a Star Wars movie, EM-SEC Technologies announced that they have developed a paint that creates an “Electromagnetic Fortress” that safeguards facilities from wireless attacks.
The company says that this is a viable solution to enabling the safe and secure operation of wireless networks within the confines of an architectural enclosure.
That’s all great but what I want to know is what colors is it available in?
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