A company called EnChroma now makes glasses that enhance color vision. It estimates about 80% of colorblind people can be helped.
This Smithsonian article explains how they discovered the technique and how they came to develop the glasses.
I’m not colorblind, but think that’s great!
July 20, 2015
I think so too. I once selected a candidate for a Management Trainee opening and had to reject him because he was colour blind. My business depended a great deal on colour matching skills then.
Yes, that was not a good job for him, but presumably he was good enough to find a job that was a better fit.
writing this through tears monk.
the marine is color blind.
i can’t wait to share this with him.
things most of us just take for granted…
once we were driving in a small town. they had hooked up their stop lights wrong. the red was in the wrong place. he nearly ran it. if he’d been alone it could have been very bad. people don’t realize what a handicap it truly is.
thanks for this post! i don’t know why but i hadn’t heard of these glasses.
i can’t wait to tell him about them!
I hope he is one of the ones they work for! That amazing about the traffic lights. It’s bad enough they’re red and green, the most common form of color blindness, but to have them in the wrong order….
I watched some of the others – especially those given the glasses as a gift – then their reaction with what they thought was a pair of dark glasses…
I’m not colour blind either, as I look around me now, I think I can see bright as reds, green, orange and then more mundane brown and blacks etc…
Interestingly enough, Andy and I took their online test and it said we have trouble with yellows and blues. We can distinguish in everyday life, so we’re not going to do anything about it.