You forgot one important point: It's a completely open product! ColorHug is OpenHardware. The software is OpenSource (hosted at github).
Concerning setting up your computer with the generated profile: I think that should be possible with colord. Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Franz Fellner <alpine.art...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > You maybe want to have a look at ColorHug: > > http://www.hughski.com/ > > I don't own one, but it should work just fine. > > > > I'm still not sure if I feel the need greatly enough to invest in one, > but this looks like a very nice solution. They offer a LiveCD which > you can use to just create an icc file which you can save to media or > they have a free pastebin-like site that you can post them to for a > week to retrieve after you reboot into your main OS. That means you > can trivially use this solution on numerous computers without > installing drivers/etc or worrying about compatibility. I'm sure > getting it working natively on Gentoo wouldn't be a big deal either. > > For $100 it doesn't seem like a bad deal. It does look like you have > to take care of the import side yourself (I've never actually done > that which is ironic since I've spent the last two years working on a > system for automating corporate import declarations - I imagine the > courier will handle it for a fee - I doubt the duties are much). I > guess they don't just do what all the cheap Amazon vendors do and > stamp "gift" on the outside of the package. > > -- > Rich >
