Color match device

Your studio needs a real paint job, but those samples of "Bone", "Off-White" and "Tallow" all seem to run together. The hassles of home maintenance can be rough, but for the color-challenged, Pantone makes the Color Cue, a device which you can swipe over any color sample and get the matching color name and number. This was originally made for the professional designer, but clueless painters can find other fun applications like matching the color of your lack-of-tan legs or the name of the color of your grandma's weird blue-gray hair dye. While most hardware stores have these things instore, the Color Cue at $379, is not such a bad investment if you plan to keep obessively painting and repainting your house.