This incredible piece of gadgetry was developed in the labs at MIT. The project is a great demonstration of how technology can be used to not only advance art but create art as well.

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.

The applications of this technology are practically endless. I wonder what would happen if one was to scan this video with the I/O brush and then paint a canvas with it. Would it be a crazy recursive “mirror in a barbershop” kind of effect, or would it simply destroy the space-time continuum?

link - I/O Brush