Brush In Hand

Paint the wall with pixels.

The Pixel Roller (QuickTime, 6MB)

I/O Brush (QuickTime, 9MB)

For decades advertising campaigns and company slogans have posed the question: What happens when you combine technology with imagination? Rarely are the results as stunningly imaginative as rAndom International’s Pixel Roller, a paint roller that prints paint or light onto surfaces from a digital input; Watch Paper, a thermographic wallpaper; or MIT’s I/O Brush, which, when brushed across a real-world object, samples the color, texture, and motion of the object, allowing the brush to paint onscreen with the organic pattern.

As fantastic as they sound, these imaginative analog-digital hybrids can only be understood in motion. Sit back, watch these short videos, and unfurl your imagination. What can you come up with?

[via John Nack | Adobe Blogs]