X-Rite and the recently acquired Pantone Inc. launched a new line of color management tools dubbed ColorMunki.

Update:
Colormunki gets reviewed and is on sale on Amazon.com.

The ColorMunki family of products includes ColorMunki Photo, ColorMunki Design, and ColorMunki Create.
The ColorMunki products are a combination of software and hardware that give you freedom and flexibility to create and produce with color confidence.
ColorMunki Photo is a completely integrated, versatile solution that calibrates displays, projectors and printers, measures ambient light and captures spot colors. The new AppSet automatically sets the printer profile for the user. ColorMunki Photo also includes new, exciting color creation and communication tools, such as automatically extracting colors from images and transporting images with DigitalPouch to ensure ViewSafe environments. ColorMunki Photo gives photographers ultimate color control for their images.

Design provides the freedom and simplicity to select, specify and store color palettes in a calibrated environment, assuring precise color viewing and reproduction.

ColorMunki Create is an affordable, simple starting point for designers whose primary requirement is color palette creation. ColorMunki Create offers spectral color selection from system-level color pickers, inspirational images, color harmonies and key word searches, and with the ability to snap-to PANTONE Goe Colors for repurposing into usable palettes. In addition to software, ColorMunki Create offers a simplified approach to on-screen color control to let designers realize their creative vision.
More details on the ColorMunki site.