Screw that. I thought that the only benefit of being blind was that you didn't have to match.

I take that back.. I once saw Stevie Wonder molest Jewel (who was not a fan of the whole thing - it looked like he was trying to put his hand around her waist, but he was three or four inches low) and Chaca Kahn (who was a BIG fan of Stevie Grinding on her).

Throw a black light in that too so Daredevil knows whether or not he needs to change costumes.

"Your red costume is stained with blood and semen."

Welp, time to change my costume and put this one up on e-bay.

But what if you were blind from a very young age/birth and you have no mental reference for color?

Does it use real F-rays? Don't those go THROUGH anything?

Heck I need this!...
And I can see...
Obviously, otherwise I would have typed:" nsd;lfj84thsd;fnsa;'-=36535)"

I wonder if it speaks in colors men understand like RED, GREEN, BLUE... or does it gives names like Ocre, Taupe, Frescia, which most us men, will not even have a clue at....

:)

This doesn't seem very helpful. If you are blind, one would be more concerned about the style of the clothing probably more than the color, in which case you'd have somebody helping you anyhow. If you are colorblind, that you're a guy and don't give a crap about what you're wearing anyhow.

Well, it might be of SOME use to a blind person, but doubt it would be the clothing issue.

Red sounds like.....burning.

Yeah yeah... this is all well and good...

Until Hypercolors make a comeback.
Muahahahaha!

what if your article of clothing has multiple colors, and if so, how would you know?

I'm the first colorblind guy to read this apparently. I'd say I want one, but my wife does this for me.

What would make this more useful is if it had a 3 color buffer and some AI fashion sense. That way I could scan a shirt, some pants and a tie and it could tell me if they work together.

This is like the iCat meet Grranimals.

Always wondered how blind people matched before
I figured they had someone put all the purple clothes in one drawer, all the blue in another, etc

@qbrad: Ow, my sperm!

@hakubak: It would depend who was behind the AI fashion sense. That guy from What Not To Wear? or Isaac Mizrahi? Things could go horribly wrong.

Now if Jack Bauer did the AI, that could work for me. Half my stuff is jeans and black T-shirts anyway, but when going out with the Wife, I always get the hairy eye-ball. You're wearing THAT? "Why yes, my Thanko Bright F scanner said it matches!"

@hatboysam: They steal my girlfriend and have her do it, the lousy bastard.

"Did you know Daredevil's costume was supposed to be black, like the night, instead of bright flaming red? That's because Matt Murdoch is blind, and the bastard couldn't tell one material from another."

Um... or maybe it's supposed to be red because he's Daredevil? You know, like with the little horns on his head..?

Of course, it was argued that he started out with an ugly yellow costume because he didn't know how ugly and yellow it was....

@aec007: Salmon, chocolate, peach.

Foods or colors?

Does this device only come in white?

(...sorry, couldn't resist...I hope I don't go to hell for this...)

@ideaman2020:"Of course, it was argued that he started out with an ugly yellow costume because he didn't know how ugly and yellow it was.... "

So what was Wolverine's excuse?

@hakubak: With claws like that, do you need an excuse?

Gizmodo's description is incorrect. It does not speak the color. It simply assigns a tone based on hue and saturation. It groups like-colors together by using like-tones.

Nothing new. My father has had a device similar to this since 1998. It scans the color, announces the closest match of color it kind find in it's database (including shades and many tints) and the can also announce hue, saturation, and value.

[www.tiresias.org]

Don't want to stop the fun but:
Those things do definitly exist and are up for sale at a local tore for blind people for around 50 bucks. I couldn't find one online to link to.
And they are actually used by blind people to match their clothes.
I know a girl who is blind from birth, but has developed a pretty good understanding of how to dress well using such a device.
There is even a java app for cameraphones that does this, it works practicaly, but is not nearly as acurate as such a device.
Why someone would make a concept, thats exactly something that already exists is totaly behind me.

@kall: You obviously aren't familiar with Yank-o, darling of Gizmodo slow news days.

This thing better have politically correct colors names, 'cause if you are blind and go pointing this thing at the brothers in the hood, you either:
- get shot
- get mugged
- or get raped...

So your telling my if we tweaked and modded this thing we could send blind people into psychedelic trips? Welcome to Japanese anime my blind brethren.

I no longer turn things, i circumgyrate them

Oh look, gizmodo posted another concept that will probably never come to pass.

If I made a mock up remote control that will cause any person you point it at to give you $100, would you post it? I've been working on this concept gadget for a long time, and even though my DESIGN will never be made, I think it's important that the technology community see my idea.

Reminds me of the House of the Future from Mr. Show.

actually this could be quite an easy thing to make. Even with a home webcam and some programming- just get the rgb values of a center pixel and depending on what it is "say" a sound.

no brainer to build, just need time