EIZO's 19-inch FlexScan L797, now with yummy CUD

Eizo just spat-out 19-inches of top-quality CUD for your graphics department to lap up. Designed apparently to assist the color blind, the FlexScan L797 is the first to carry the mark of the CUD, or Color Universal Design, and comes loaded with a "color vision simulation facitlity" to redisplay an on-screen image as a trichromasticly-challenged person would see it. Hell, we're just going off the machine translation here, which also says something about "the potato, by the fact that you improve" so who knows. Nevertheless, the LCD is capable of 1280x1024 (SXGA), a 450:1 contrast ratio, 20-millisecond response cause Jimmy don't game, 170-degree visibility, and 2x DVI inputs. Should drop in Japan for ¥130,000 or about $1,108 starting October 20th.

[strider_mt2k @ Sep 21st 2006 9:42AM]

Mmmmm chewy!

[disciple83 @ Sep 21st 2006 9:54AM]

does anyone else find it particularly odd to hear about a color blind graphic designer, let alone enough of them to design an entire product line of monitors for them? I bet thats why Apple gave up the flourescent silhouette thing for its commercials, they hired a new, apparently color-blind, ad dpet.

P.S. what's a "facitlity"?

[Vilppi @ Sep 21st 2006 10:20AM]

I would think that the "color vision simulation facitlity [sic]" would be useful mostly for graphic designers willing to design stuff so that even the color blind among us could enjoy them and not for color blind designers.

[Sam @ Sep 21st 2006 10:25AM]

Being colourblind (or suffering from trition colour defect to be PC) I think this is a great idea, i feel that i miss out on so much, what with all my photos, lectures, films, etc... being displayed on a monitor. Shame it doesnt do gaming as that is one of the most difficult areas to see things in.

[Owen Bird @ Sep 21st 2006 7:57PM]

I have done some web sites for color blind friends in the past. I used VisCheck to look at the sites as how a color blind person would see them before publishing it gave me some great ideas and understanding of what colors work well with others. check out this site. it works on almost all sites that do not have FRAMES.
http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckURL.php

[teodoro @ Sep 21st 2006 11:27AM]

Shame on Engadget for using red and green voting buttons on comments. Not very colorblind friendly!
Also, would you please get Engadget Japanese to translate some of this stuff for you and stop complaining that you can't understand the machine translation.
What good are all the Engadget flavors if a little synergy doesn't happen?

[Foof @ Sep 21st 2006 12:54PM]

Yeah, it's a shame the green button doesn't have a "plus" mark on it or anything....hmmm...

But seriously, does anyone find it weird that this feature is done in hardware? Wouldn't it be easier to implement this feature in a software application that you can toggle and customize?

[schtum @ Sep 21st 2006 11:50AM]

So, to all the colorblind folks here, can you see the difference between the three screens pictured above? If you can, then this doesn't work ;)

[Johnny @ Sep 21st 2006 4:49PM]

FRESH! RS! FEH!

[ozi @ Oct 9th 2006 1:46AM]

these guys used to make the most amazing CRT screens ever, too bad they gave up.

cant find info on their dead pixel policies
on their lcds!