One-Pixel Camera
RGBy is a one pixel camera created by a couple of engineers in Japan. Closer to a light sensor than it is an actual camera, the RGBy captures the color of any object you hold it up to. Check out the video after the link.
The device itself is a little translucent plastic cube, and the cube glows with the captured color. This is useful for color theorists or designers who see that perfect shade of vermillion or jade while they’re walking in the park and just have to incorporate it into their latest layout. Of course, you could take a picture with a regular old camera, but digital cameras hardly ever get colors perfectly correct. And does your camera glow?
Well, OK. So the RGBy is really more of a toy than anything else. A geeky toy. If it gets picked up by a manufacturer, we’ll throw it into the next edition of the Webmonkey Wishlist.
(The original link to the actual creators’ page is 503-ing, so we had to link to We Make Money Not Art’s blog post about the RGBy… maybe try the original link if you’re reading this a few days late).
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