There have been so many times when I wish I could somehow get paint in the color of a flower I saw, or capture the color of the sky. (So poetic, I know.)
And then I found this Color Picker contraption designed by Jinsun Park that, while it may still be in the concept phase, makes me tingle with excitement every time I think about the possibilities.
“After placing the pen against an object, the user just presses the scan button.
target color. This superb device will help people to observe the
changing colors of nature. With color picker, all range of artists will be able to cerate a more sensorial and visual insight of their surrounding nature’s colors.”
Can you imagine?
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If you want to see the real, working version don at the mit medialab several years ago, check out the I/O brush (input output)
http://web.media.mit.edu/~kimiko/iobrush/
That’s great! This gadget is so helpful. Thanks to the mind behind this masterpiece.
What a cool idea – love it!
That’s a very nice idea, I really want this tool but, please do it in CMYK, not RGB…it seems to be a bad ignorance in the basics of color interpretation.