Color-Picking Pen Concept Imagines Real-World Photoshop Eyedropper Tool

June 26, 2009 Art, Web Design No Comments

Most of the Photoshop tools familiar to artists import old school analog devices onto the computer. Before computers, artists would use actual razors to crop, and physical scissors and glue to cut and paste. But South Korean designer Jinsun Park has envisioned a pen that reverses the process, taking a tool developed for the computer and porting it to physical reality.


Park has designed a concept pen that adapts Photoshop’s eyedropper tool for real life. On one end of the pen is a camera that captures a complex, real world color. Then, like an inkjet printer, a computer in the pen calculates the mixture of red, green and blue ink needed to replicate the color photographed by the camera. Ink in the perfect proportions then flows out of the ball point on the other end of the pen.


Source: http://www.popsci.com/gear-amp-gadgets/article/2009-06/real-life-photoshop-tool-grabs-colors

Void LP player

June 24, 2009 Cool Shit, Music, Science, Technology No Comments

The record player uses a carrier and dock outfitted with a magnetic and auto-calibrating control
system which carries the LP into thin air as it is playing music. a self-running record player shaped
in the form of a red sphere, contains a needle, amplifier and speaker, spins around the record,
bringing the music to life. the sphere that plays the vinyl was technically influenced by the ‘vinyl killer’,
currently the world’s smallest LP player that has a built-in motor, amplifier and speaker.

Simple colors and shapes express a kind of astronomical movement between the object and space.
The levitation is managed electronically. once turning the player on, you can manage the elevation
levels through the touch sensors on the front side of the base unit.

Source: http://rheajeong.com/index.php?/2009/high/

Neil Young

June 10, 2009 Music No Comments

That Neil Young’s been working on his career retrospective for 23 years says something about the songwriter’s longevity. But it raises a question: Can anything be worth that long a wait?

We say: Sort of. Neil Young Archives Volume 1 (1963–1972), which came out this week as a boxed set of ten (10!) DVDs, is absurdly lavish. The tracks date back to Young’s earliest recordings, with a Winnipeg folk-rock band called the Squires; they include two excellent (but previously released) concert performances and dozens of previously unreleased recordings. You’ll also find Young’s quasi-watchable film Journey Through the Past as well as interviews, lyric sheets, demos, and other ephemera. There’s plenty to explore here, and thanks to Young’s gearhead tendencies — which explain his insistence on audio DVDs rather than CDs — the sound quality is pristine. (You can also get an eight-CD version of the set, but it all but comes with a warning sticker from the man in charge.) That said, Archives is expensive — $200, with the Amazon discount — so its appeal is directly proportional to your degree of obsessiveness. For most of us, the $70 set of CDs will suffice.

Source: Veryshortlist.com

 

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