Being color blind is no fun at all – or perhaps dangerous, even, if you happen to be driving and your eyes cannot tell the difference between green, amber and red. Well, perhaps tools and technology from the living room might be able to help out some – in the form of the Eyeteq TV box which intends to assist those who have color blindness to be able to better differentiate shades.
The Eyeteq TV box was developed by a Cambridge firm, hailing from the University of East Anglia-based company Spectral Edge, where it is capable of making changes to colors frame-by-frame – all without spoiling the image for those who do not have color blindness. In the future, if this particular technology will be able to pan out as intended, it might even see action on video games, now how about that? It is hoped that the Eyeteq TV box will eventually be part of all TVs as a standard addition down the road, although that would take quite a shaking up of the industry for that to happen.
This technology has arrived at the proof-of-concept stage, where the next step in the name of progress would be to refine and upgrade it, hitting 1080p from the existing 720p resolution.
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