A genuinely magic marker

by Alex Rainert on January 25, 2010 · 6 comments

in Thoughts

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Jinsun Park’s Color Picker concept is just one of those things that hits that sweet spot between practicality and whimsy – a wonderful place to be with your product should you want to capture people’s imagination and have them spend some money on it.

Who wouldn’t want a pen that uses the world around you as a palette?

Update: Thanks to Andrew for pointing out a similar project from MIT from 2005.

  • Andrew Miller

    This is great, but so was the original: http://web.media.mit.edu/~kimiko/iobrush/ Just giving credit where it's due

  • arainert

    Great stuff Andrew. Thanks for sharing that. Post done been updated.

  • Andrew Miller

    Hooray! The IO brush is a classic in academia, but it lacks the practicality and whimsy of the color picker. Hope one or the other gets commercially produced!

  • http://soup.giersig.org/post/43494994/A-genuinely-magic-marker Rolands Eintopf

    A genuinely magic marker…

    Now that’s real magic……

  • http://blog.steffanantonas.com Steffan Antonas

    #whydidntIthinkofthat

  • Stefan

    Ehem… painting with light? *giggle*
    If this is ever going to work, it should contain CMYK ink – not RGB ink :-)

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