IKONN CS-1 Colour and Light Sensor
A small module that clips onto the IKONN Controller and names colours out loud: more than 20 colours, five shades within each. It also works as a light detector, so you can tell whether a lamp or an appliance is on.
Key Features
- Requires the IKONN Controller: the sensor clips into the bay in the top of the handset and speaks through it
- Names more than 20 colours and 5 shades within each one, so a light blue is not simply called blue
- Switchable solid and textured surface modes, because knitwear and paper scatter light differently
- Sweep function reads across a patterned item and reports the breakdown of colours it finds
- Compare function holds one colour and tests a second against it, to answer whether two items match
- Light detector reports whether a light is on in the room
- Screen and LED mode reads the colour of an indicator lamp, so a green or red standby light can be identified
- Small and light at 44 x 42 x 16 mm and 25 g, with a bright cyan top tile carrying the IKONN sensor mark
Product Information
Colour is the piece of information the rest of the IKONN range cannot give you, and it is the one that decides whether an outfit works, whether a shirt is the navy one or the black one, and which of two similar towels came out of the wash. The CS-1 clips into the bay in the top of the IKONN Controller and names what it is pointed at, out loud, in your own language. It distinguishes more than twenty colours and, within each of them, five shades, so it will separate a light blue from a mid blue rather than calling both of them blue. A mode switch handles solid and textured surfaces, which matters because a knitted jumper and a sheet of paper scatter light very differently and a single setting gets one of them wrong. A sweep function runs it across a patterned item and reports the breakdown of colours it finds, which is how you learn what a print actually looks like rather than only its background. A compare function holds one colour and tests a second against it, which is the direct answer to whether these two items match. The same sensor works as a light detector. Point it at a room and it reports whether a light is on, which is genuinely useful for not leaving a lamp burning all day and for checking that a room is dark before sleeping. A screen and LED mode reads the colour of a small indicator light, so you can tell whether the standby light on an appliance is green or red, and therefore whether the machine has finished, is still running or has failed. The module is small at 44 by 42 mm and 25 g, and it carries a bright cyan tile on its top face with the IKONN sensor mark, so a sighted helper can see at a glance which way round it goes. It needs the IKONN Controller to work.
Colour is the piece of information the rest of the IKONN range cannot give you, and it is the one that decides whether an outfit works, whether a shirt is the navy one or the black one, and which of two similar towels came out of the wash. The CS-1 clips into the bay in the top of the IKONN Controller and names what it is pointed at, out loud, in your own language. It distinguishes more than twenty colours and, within each of them, five shades, so it will separate a light blue from a mid blue rather than calling both of them blue. A mode switch handles solid and textured surfaces, which matters because a knitted jumper and a sheet of paper scatter light very differently and a single setting gets one of them wrong. A sweep function runs it across a patterned item and reports the breakdown of colours it finds, which is how you learn what a print actually looks like rather than only its background. A compare function holds one colour and tests a second against it, which is the direct answer to whether these two items match. The same sensor works as a light detector. Point it at a room and it reports whether a light is on, which is genuinely useful for not leaving a lamp burning all day and for checking that a room is dark before sleeping. A screen and LED mode reads the colour of a small indicator light, so you can tell whether the standby light on an appliance is green or red, and therefore whether the machine has finished, is still running or has failed. The module is small at 44 by 42 mm and 25 g, and it carries a bright cyan tile on its top face with the IKONN sensor mark, so a sighted helper can see at a glance which way round it goes. It needs the IKONN Controller to work.