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Colour Memo Stick
Submitted29.05.2009
by srk
Description
Collect your colours

Using the colour memo stick you can find and collect your own mood light colours
where ever you like. No matter which places and colours you like. Just hold the
stick with it\'s sensor onto a object you like and wait till the stick matches the colour.
At home you can load your new colours into your home base station mood light.
So you can relax by reminding places you have been.

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This would be very handy as a designer. Right now I use my camera or mobile camera to snapshot images of colours and textures... I would think that you would need a way to match the colour exactly as different lighting causes one colour to look different... I often take a picture of something and the colour looks different when I see it on my screen and different when I recieve my prototype from the manufacturer. howman
I know some LED\'s know have better color rendering indexes (CRI) than other lights, lets hope that the technology keeps marching forward so we will one day have a light that matches the CRI exactly! LED Head
@LED Head - I think that just being able to accurately capture a colour and transfer it to your workstation would be the big point of these as I see it... Having a basic representation in the colour shown would be good enough for the purpose of tranporting the saved colour. howman
I know there are companies doing color matching like X-rite, but that equipment is expensive. If this could somehow be low cost, USB based and fairly cheap that would be awesome. LED Head
Congratulations on your idea moving forward into phase 2. I am thinking the first thing to research is some sort of low cost CCD camera. The resolution would not have to be that high like we would see in digital cameras, something lower cost that could sense color should do. LED Head
congratulations. howman
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Extend this excellent idea by the following aspects:

Affordable technical solution
Design
Solution including luminaire
Under $10 dollar Cmos Camera for color capture
LED Head
(2.3)
Colour capture camera unit.
howman
(2.6)
Lipstick colour memo stick
Alexandre Oberda
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