New glasses may help with color blindness.

A new type of glasses has a surprising side effect for the colorblind. The lenses were created by a company based in Boise, Idaho, named 2A1 Labs.

The spectacles were originally created to help health care workers find veins underneath the skin and to assist doctors in identifying bruising that may be difficult to see.

Last year, the designers were testing the glasses when they discovered that 8 percent of males and 0.5 percent of females with colorblindness claimed that the lenses assisted them in different shades.

The glasses had a profound effect for people who suffer from red-green colorblindness, but while those shades became enhanced, blue-yellow hues turned dull. The lenses are said to help wearers pass standard color vision tests, but skeptics point out that they do nothing to cure or correct the disorder.

Color blindness translates to a problem seeing red, green, blue or a combination of these colors. Sufferers may not see the hue at all, or they may see the wrong color in place of the original.

Also referred to as a color vision problem, the disorder is usually inherited and present from birth.