Microsoft’s new app lets colorblind people see the world a little clearer

Colorblindness isn’t usually a debilitating condition, but it’s probably more common than you think, affecting some eight percent of the population. In extreme cases, people might wear tinted glasses to shift the colors they see nearer to real life, but most don’t bother. Now, though, a new app from Microsoft will make it easier for anyone with colorblindness to see the world a little clearer.

The app is named Color Binoculars and uses your phone’s camera as a lens through. "It’s an app that helps colorblind people distinguish color 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 reds...

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