Not many of us are aware of a device named I/O Brush which aims to wipe out the differences between “painting in the real world” and “painting in computing environment”. It came in existence during the PhD work(2003-05) of Kimiko Ryokai at MIT(Massachusetts Institute of Technology). At that time, Stefan Marti, who also contributed to the project, was the Research Assistant at MIT Media Lab. How it works? The new drawing tool- I/O Brush gives the freedom of exploring colors, textures, and movements found in surrounding objects by "picking up" and start drawing with them. Now, this is very much…
