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I/O Electronic Brush for Painting

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the all-we-got-was-a-lump-of-clay dept.

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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  1. It looks like by xquark · · Score: 4, Funny

    either an oversize painting brush or a normal sized
    toilet brush, I'm still deciding.... :)

    Arash

    --
    Arash Partow's Philosophy: Be a person who knows what they don't know, and not a person who doesn't know.
  2. High-Tech or Dump by Cash202 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    This appears to be one of two things:

    1) Revolutionary way to develop creativity, artistic design, and low level education to children. Would replace wasteful and hectic coloring books, child artbooks, and maybe open gate to accept fully digital books. A world of application.

    -or-

    2) Another technological development overlooked and not cared for, ending up with countless other technological developments. Though some of which were brought back after years in the garbage pile, when widely or purposeful applicable use appears. However, most remain there, which it seems this would be the destiny of this particular gadget.

  3. That's so 2004 by MSch · · Score: 4, Informative

    That thing was featured in the Austrian Ars Electronica Festival from 2004.

    More information about the Brush from this website

    1. Re:That's so 2004 by horror_vacui · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I work at the Ars Electronica Center and I can confirm that it's not really news, the I/O brush having been exposed there for a rather long time.

      Like most exhibits in the AEC, the I/O brush is not meant to be useful in the praxis, but rather to show new ways of interaction that new technologies offer - like 'moonies', a project where you can chase butterflies projected on a screen of vapour, or 'scrapple', a kind of reversal of virtual reality (which is basically a music sampler, only you create music not by editing the track on the screen, but by putting real objects of various shapes on a grid projected on a table). And lots of others, which are along the same lines - 'conspiratio', 'music box' etc. See for yourself on http://www.aec.at/en/festival2005/programm/allproj ects.asp

      It seems like especially kids love the I/O brush, resulting in high amounts of tear and wear on the hardware.