Monkeys With Superpower Eyes Could Help Cure Color Blindness

Squirrel monkeys don’t see color like people. But inject their eyeballs with a genetically engineered virus, and they suddenly can perceive a new rainbow. The same trick could someday be used on color-blind people.

 The Challenge of Living with Color Blindness

Most color blindness is genetic. Around 80 percent of people with color vision deficiencies are male. Many people aren't even aware they have the condition until they start to compare how they see color with someone else. So, what is it like to live with color vision deficiency? How do you cope with day-to-day tasks that involve color recognition?

 This Is What New York City Looks Like If You're Color Blind

Most people with color vision deficiency can see colors normally, but they have difficulty differentiating between particular shades of reds and greens and in some cases, blues and yellows, notes American Optometric Association.

Take The Color Challenge: How Well Can You See Color?

Could you be colorblind without even knowing it? While one out of 255 ladies suffer from mild colorblindness, a whopping one in 12 men can’t tell the difference between chartreuse and lemon-mint. Egads! Don’t fret, we’ve found this nifty online quiz to test your color identification skills. Be warned: the test, made by X-Rite, manufacturer of color matching products, is not as easy as you might think.

A Mother’s Journey into Colorblindness

The most important goal for me, and for any parent I think, is to have a happy, confident child. I was never concerned that colorblindness itself would be extremely limiting for Andrew. However, I did recognize that it had the potential to do some serious damage to his self-confidence.

An Art Museum Is Giving Color Vision to the Color Blind

At the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, you can enhance your experience of art with color blindness-correcting glasses.

Colorblind? This app could help fill in the gaps

A new app from Microsoft is designed to help people with color blindness see the world a little bit more clearly. Color Binoculars, created by two Microsoft software engineers (one of whom is colorblind), applies a filter to incoming images, changing the colors on the screen to ones that are easier to distinguish.

Explainer: what is colour blindness?

Most scientific studies suggest that the wiring of the eye and brain is identical in people with normal and abnormal colour vision. The only difference is at the first stage of vision, where the cones can be faulty.

For One Artist, Colorblindness Opened Up A World Of Black And White

Milton wasn't going to abandon art, but he did feel he had to abandon color. And so he embraced black and white. In 1969, he and his family moved to a big yellow house in Francestown, N.H., and in the four decades since, Milton has been making extraordinarily intricate black-and-white prints.

How Color Blind People See the World

Have you ever had an argument with a friend about the color of a particular object? Just imagine that your favorite red jacket suddenly is, according to your crazy friend, a green one! Don’t worry, take a deep breath… probably he’s just simply color blind… or maybe you are color blind? It’s perfectly possible. It turns out that one out of every ten people on earth is color blind, and most of them do not even know it! How is that possible? It is actually quite simply: we cannot even imagine how people with eye disorders experience life. So today we will try to understand how a color blind person sees the world and to explain the causes of color blindness.

New Glasses Transform The Way Colorblind People See The World

On top of working to make the glasses more accessible for colorblind people, EnChroma is also hoping to target their work on children — the age group where they say they can make huge inroads.