I/O Brush Kimiko Ryokai, Stefan Marti and Professor Hiroshi Ishii

I/O Brush
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. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the canvas, artists can draw with the special "ink" they just picked up from their immediate environment.
Please email Kimiko Ryokai at kimiko@media.mit.edu if you have questions about I/O Brush. Also visit the I/O Brush project webpage.

Papers