diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gusb/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gusb/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0534df821cce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gusb/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, fetchgit
+, automake, autoconf, libtool, which, gtkdoc, gettext, pkgconfig, gobjectIntrospection, libxslt
+, glib, systemd, libusb1
+}:
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "gusb-git";
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  src = fetchgit {
+    url = git://gitorious.org/gusb/gusb.git;
+    rev = "53226a15a627b20fde38303c2141a17985d741ae";
+    sha256 = "01daf09f663e27bdd92532e3e2a3e87de895e9cc1f150d4e0fc75b0dc489fccf";
+  };
+
+  preConfigure = "./autogen.sh";
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    pkgconfig autoconf automake libtool which gtkdoc gettext gobjectIntrospection libxslt
+    systemd libusb1
+    glib
+  ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "GLib libusb wrapper";
+    homepage = http://gitorious.org/gusb;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.lgpl21;
+    maintainers = [stdenv.lib.maintainers.marcweber];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/colord/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/colord/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e6787ec76c8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/colord/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, fetchgit
+, glib, polkit, pkgconfig, intltool, gusb, libusb1, lcms2, sqlite, systemd, dbus
+
+, automake, autoconf, libtool, gtk_doc, which, gobjectIntrospection
+, version ? "git"
+}:
+
+# colord wants to write to the etc/colord.conf and var/run/colord/mapping.db
+# thus they get symlinked to /etc and /var
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation (stdenv.lib.mergeAttrsByVersion "colord" version {
+  "0.1.33" = {
+    name = "colord-0.1.33";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = http://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/releases/colord-0.1.32.tar.xz;
+      sha256 = "1smbkh4z1c2jjwxg626f12sslv7ff3yzak1zqrc493cl467ll0y7";
+    };
+  };
+  "git" = {
+    name = "colord-git-11dca";
+    src = fetchgit {
+      url = "https://github.com/hughsie/colord.git";
+      rev = "11dcaba034edff3955ceff53795df82c57c34adc";
+      sha256 = "1280q7zbfm5wqql872kcxmk5rmwjs7cv7cgz8nx0i9g4ac8j2mrf";
+    };
+
+    preConfigure = ''
+      ./autogen.sh
+    '';
+    buildInputs = [ automake autoconf libtool gtk_doc which gobjectIntrospection ];
+  };
+} {
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    configureFlags="$configureFlags --with-udevrulesdir=$out/lib/udev/rules.d --with-systemdsystemunitdir=$out/lib/udev/rules.d"
+  '';
+
+  buildInputs = [glib polkit pkgconfig intltool gusb libusb1 lcms2 sqlite systemd dbus];
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    sed -i '/usb_id\|usb-db/d' $out/lib/udev/rules.d/69-cd-sensors.rules
+    mv $out/etc/colord.conf{,.default}
+    ln -s /etc/colord.conf $out/etc/colord.conf
+    rm -fr $out/var/lib/colord
+    ln -s /var/lib/colord $out/var/lib/colord
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "system service that makes it easy to manage, install and generate color profiles to accurately color manage input and output devices";
+    homepage = http://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/intro.html;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.lgpl2Plus;
+    maintainers = [stdenv.lib.maintainers.marcweber];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b8ff9c19f78d..411d5b583d05 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -633,6 +633,8 @@ let
 
   ciopfs = callPackage ../tools/filesystems/ciopfs { };
 
+  colord = callPackage ../tools/misc/colord { };
+
   colordiff = callPackage ../tools/text/colordiff { };
 
   connect = callPackage ../tools/networking/connect { };
@@ -4269,6 +4271,10 @@ let
 
   gnonlin = callPackage ../development/libraries/gstreamer/gnonlin {};
 
+  gusb = callPackage ../development/libraries/gusb {
+    inherit (gnome) gtkdoc;
+  };
+
   qt_gstreamer = callPackage ../development/libraries/gstreamer/qt-gstreamer {};
 
   gnet = callPackage ../development/libraries/gnet { };