I/O Electronic Brush for Painting

karvind writes "BBC is running an interesting story about the I/O Brush developed by Kimiko Ryokai, researcher at the MIT Media Labs. The device allows a person to pick up colours and textures from their environment and paint with them on a large digital screen. At the tip of the brush is a tiny video camera enclosed by a ring-shaped brush. LEDs are used for illumination, and pressure sensors to trigger image capture. The camera captures one frame in the normal mode, and a few seconds of video in movie mode. The brush "paints" the captured image or movie onto a back-projected touch screen."

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Airhead self-promoting jackasses do it again

[geordieboy]

Why did they embed the video camera inside a big load of brush bristles? To make the kids feel "at ease" with the device? I imagine someone is writing their thesis right now on how important the damn bristles are for making the kids feel at ease. Meanwhile, on the other side of the MIT campus, the grown ups are sequencing the rat genome.

How about a system that lets you paint by pissing on a pressure sensitive digital canvus. The saltier the piss the deeper the color. With virtual ammonia stench too! Wouldn't that be revolutionary, you media lab bastard.