News tagged with color
Color blindness cured in monkeys
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Florida used gene therapy to cure two squirrel monkeys of color blindness — the most common genetic disorder in people.
Samsung Presents New Ultra Portable Data Projector
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Samsung Electronics today announced the upcoming release of its latest P Series (Portable) Projector, the P410M, an LED-based DLP Pocket Projector. Weighing less than two pounds, the P410M’s compact design ...
LED closes the yellow gap: Full conversion of blue into amber light by new nitride phosphor
Jul 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Monochromatic light-emitting diodes cover a large part of the visible spectrum with high effi-ciency. For blue light, nitride diodes achieve external quantum efficiencies in excess of 65%, ...
OLED Tunes its Colors for Sunlight-Style Illumination
Jul 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have developed a lighting device that can change its color temperature throughout the day, matching the natural daylight chromaticities produced by the sun. Currently, no other ...
Social scientist creates computer model to determine human perception of hues
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Variations in how people perceive colors and how those same colors appear on TV, computers and other media have confounded broadcasters, Web designers and printers trying to reproduce lifelike hues.
Kodak taking Kodachrome away
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Kodak is taking Kodachrome away. More than 35 years after Paul Simon immortalized the color film in song, the company announced on Monday that it would be ending production of Kodachrome.
Sharp Develops Five-Primary-Color LCD That Faithfully Reproduces Real Surface Colors
May 29, 2009 |
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Sharp Corporation has developed a five-primary-color display that faithfully reproduces the real surface colors that humans are capable of perceiving. A prototype of this display will be exhibited at the international symposium ...
Navy grant to fund probe of squid and octopus camouflage
May 20, 2009 |
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Octopuses and squid are big brained species that use much of their mental powers to adjust their own appearances. This remarkable ability to camouflage on the fly has inspired the Office of Naval Research to award $7.5 million ...
Predators ignore peculiar prey
May 12, 2009 |
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Rare traits persist in a population because predators detect common forms of prey more easily. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Ecology found that birds will target salamanders that look l ...
Xerox looks to make color printing more affordable
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The economics of color printing in big offices are simple: A page of black and white costs about 2 cents per page, while color runs about 8 cents.
Electrofluidic Display Technology puts electronic book readers ahead by a wide margin
Apr 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Thinking about getting an e-reader but not sure if you like reading the dim screen? An international collaboration of the University of Cincinnati, Sun Chemical, Polymer Vision and Gamma Dynamics ...
How much vitamin D do I need?
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Vitamin D -- the so-called sunshine vitamin -- is the wonder nutrient of the moment. While the vitamin is best known for helping build strong bones and absorb calcium, a vitamin D deficiency can raise the risk of everything ...
Show me your DNA and I'll tell you your eye color
Mar 09, 2009 |
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More and more information is being gathered about how human genes influence medically relevant traits, such as the propensity to develop a certain disease. The ultimate goal is to predict whether or not a given trait will ...
New Forensic Method Aims to Predict What a Person Looks Like from DNA Sample
Mar 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Arizona research team recently completed a study looking at the DNA blueprint of almost 1,000 individuals and comparing that to detailed measurements of their hair, skin and ...
Trading carats for nanometers - and defective diamonds for crystal clear microscopy
Mar 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Large, perfect diamonds are precious to almost all of us but to some scientists, it is the defects that really matter. This is because defects can form nanoscopic color centers, which play ...
