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Get your true colors with Real Life Color Picker
In Photoshop, there’s a little pen which will copy the color settings of anything on your monitor screen so you can use it as your color in the program. Well, think of the Real Life Color Picker as … well, a real life version of just that – only for the real world.
The Color Picker can scan any color in the real world by placing the head of the pen against the object of color and pressing the scan button. Color sensors inside the pen talk to the attached RGB cartridge, which then mixes the proper proportions of red, green and blue to come up with an accurate ink color. It can then be used for artistic purposes like drawing or simply writing with it. Very cool.
I can see literally hundreds of possibilities for hobbyists – particularly scrapbookers and costumers looking to match the color of a particular garment or wallpaper sample in order to then get the right swatch to create the perfect scrap book page or costume. Or simply someone like my wife, who’s been writing in a journal non stop since she was 13 (now 42) and getting ink to suit her mood at the time.
It’s just a concept right now, but if this sucker gets funding, I can see Parker or Paper Mate picking this up just in time for school.
Hat Tip – Random Good Stuff
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Real Life Color Picker | Gizmo Ave Says: June 2, 2009 at 8:37 pm
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nobrainerdeals Says: June 2, 2009 at 10:21 pm
I love to have one of these things around the house for weekend projects.
cmyk Says: June 4, 2009 at 4:13 am
print with rgb inks?
XDDDD why nobody stopped this before?
aldee Says: June 4, 2009 at 6:30 am
waw! awesome!!!!
Roy G Biv Says: June 5, 2009 at 12:51 pm
this is a cool concept but you would need the cartridge to contain CMYK not RGB to create the proper spectrum of colors.. CMYK are the primary colors of pigment while RGB are the primary colors of light. for example, if you add red and green paint together, you get a gross brown color as opposed to mixing red and green light which would give you a bright yellow.
Marina Martin Says: June 6, 2009 at 10:36 pm
This pen could also be used to fill in scratches or discolorations. The uses are limitless! Can’t wait for it to be released.
kristine Says: August 24, 2009 at 6:34 am
.,can i get the circuit design of this gadget.,??i will use it for school.,we have a electronics project.,i want to have like this awesome gadget..
juniorsantiago@yahoo.com Says: September 5, 2009 at 12:09 am
“kristine Says: .,can i get the circuit design of this gadget.,??i will use it for school.,we have a electronics project.,i want to have like this awesome gadget..”
right, like these people are just going to hand you the circuit design. are you retarded ?
new boyz Says: December 17, 2009 at 12:32 pm
sweet
Lucas Says: June 2, 2009 at 5:53 pm
WHERE DO I GET THAT HOLY CRAP ITS COOL AAAAHHH!