How we interact with objects in the world often depends on what colors we perceive them to have, and on how those perceived colors accord with what we know to be the normal or 'canonical' colors of ...

“We are deeply into a golden age of TV. Yet the remote is the most vexing of all design objects: Its buttons have no tactile hierarchy, and it's black, so you can never find it in your couch cushions.

Physical geometry and optical properties of objects are correlated: cylinders focus light to a line, spheres to a point and arbitrarily shaped objects introduce optical aberrations. Multi-functional ...