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What Coloured Food Does to Your Poop

Those without a strong stomach should look away now. When Gabriel Morais set to wondering what different foods do to his body, he naturally wondered how different items affect the colour of his poop. Here are the results. Read More >>

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gadgets
This Beautiful Colour Picker Will Lure You in With Endless Hues

It is a primary job of any designer, illustrator, or artist to deal with choosing colours. Most software only provides cumbersome or inelegant ways of doing so. This utterly simple and addicting website will help you in your hue-rific journey with pristine, undulating tones. Ahhhh. Read More >>

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This Is What It’s Like To Be Colour Blind

With around 1 in 12 men suffering from colour blindness, it's a surprisingly common problem—but it's incredibly difficult to understand what it must be like to suffer from. Fortunately, Etre now has a simulator which lets you see the world through the eyes of the colour blind. Read More >>

Inks
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Be Absolutely Mesmerised By the Stunning Beauty of Swirling Colour in Glorious 4K

It's almost gin o'clock here on a dull Friday afternoon, so you deserve to witness something magical. Sit back, hit play, and watch as the beauty of pure-colour inks flow and swirl past in eye-bleeding 4K detail. Ahhh, that's better. [YouTube] Read More >>

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What Colour Means to Blind People

Tommy Edison, the wonderful blind film critic who once showed us how he used an iPhone, has a new video describing something nearly impossible for blind people to understand: colour. What's great is that even though Edison doesn't understand the concept of colour, colours still have meaning to him. Watch him describe what red, blue, orange, black and white. It's awesome to see colour from such a completely different perspective. [YouTube via Laughing Squid] Read More >>

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design week
What Does a Man (or Woman) Have to Do to Get a Coloured Smartphone Around Here?

A long time ago, phones did actually come in colours other than black. Was it the advent of the smartphone, and the two-year contract, which made manufacturers (and we, the people who don't want to be lumbered with a novelty red phone) lose its edge when it came to colour? While black is accessible, simple and goes with almost everything, black however is...also pretty boring. Read More >>

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apple
The More I Look at It, the More I Want a Colour iPad Mini

I like both the black iPad Mini and the 2001 Space Odyssey prop white model. But the more I look at the colour ones, like the neat red one above, the more I think they make sense. And the more I want them. Read More >>

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art
This Book Contains Every RGB Colour That Exists

In case you sometimes struggle to visualise the RGB colour space on a computer, American artist Tauba Auerbach has created a handy reference guide: a cubic book that shows off all the colours in existence. Read More >>

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amazon
Colour E-Ink Kindle Due in March?

Yes, there's a question mark in that speculative headline, because this report comes via disreputable, hit and miss manufacturer news resource DigiTimes. But still. It occasionally gets a thing right, like a broken clock. Read More >>