I/O Brush

October 12, 2005 6:09 AM

I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by "picking up" and drawing with them. Video here.
posted by Armitage Shanks (6 comments total)

Alternatively kids could physically pick up things with manipulation tools called "hands", look at them with receptors called "eyes" and then draw something, again using the "hands" which will do a variety of user defined tasks.
posted by rhymer at 6:23 AM on October 12, 2005

Wow. Wait 'till they announce the portable, hand-cranked version for third-world countries.
posted by bugmuncher at 6:30 AM on October 12, 2005

Pretty cool, but I don't see much widespread use for this.
posted by zardoz at 6:45 AM on October 12, 2005

rhymer: Fun With Your New HEAD
posted by sonofsamiam at 7:26 AM on October 12, 2005

Related: One of the guys behind this is also behind Cellular Squirrel (previously on MeFi, egregious self-promotion).

MIT certainly is the place for interesting new technology of limited use.
posted by NinjaPirate at 7:51 AM on October 12, 2005

DeluxePaint on the Amiga did this 18 years ago - they even called them brushes.
posted by rfs at 8:34 AM on October 12, 2005