Microsoft recently launched an app called Color Binoculars that uses the phone’s camera as a lens to help users with colour blindness.
"It’s an app that helps colour blind people distinguish colour combinations that they would normally have trouble telling apart," says creator Tom Overton in a Microsoft blog.
"For example, since I have difficulty distinguishing between red and green, our app makes red brighter and greens darker so that the difference is more obvious. It replaces difficult colour combinations, like red and green, with more easily distinguishable combinations like pink and green."
The app is released through Microsoft Garage – the company’s in-house lab for experimental apps.
"I’ve showed it off to my family. I have a cousin who is also colour blind, and he really enjoyed it," says Overton.
