Garish green trousers and an acidic yellow shirt – a mix that horrifies sighted people, but which blind people often find hard to avoid. And vice versa, picking specifically black trousers and a white shirt presents insurmountable difficulties to the blind. In these situations, help can come from Fame, an easy-to-operate colour recognition device. Simply hold Fame close to the object in question and push the left key to activate the colour measurement. The voice output will tell you what colour the object is, how bold or pale it is, and how dark or light. Fame’s tri-colour sensor yields a very high colour resolution and can recognise many thousands of colours. However, because it would be more or less pointless in everyday use, Fame confines itself to naming around 420 colours and their shades.