The Scribble is a new pen that lets you scan and draw in any colour you see. Any colour.
As someone who has worked in the digital world since the last millennium I have learned to accept any innovation as the new “normal” but when that new digital thing infiltrates the “real world” sometimes it melts my mind.
To me, the Scribble is straight out of sci-fi. That it can identify colours and imitate them on an iPad or other kinds of tablet device, I get. But that it can replicate any colour you point it at in ink on a real note-pad, totally blows my mind.
Crowd-source funding websites, such as Kickstarter, are a great place to discover some really out-there innovative ideas. For instance, we recently high-lighted the real-world board game that teaches you to code. And that’s where the Scribble and its creators are at: on Kickstarter and raising funds to put it into production.
The pen uses special ink that they’ve developed but, basically, one end of the pen has colour sensors and it takes about two seconds (yes!) for it to capture any colour you point it at and then you can immediately draw with that colour on paper. (Not to mention on tablets and PC’s. It is compatible with Photoshop too.)
It can apparently store up to 100,000 different colours and you can share your colours with others.
Hopefully the next thing they come up with is a paint bucket that does the same thing and lets you paint the outside of your house just by touching it, like the paint bucket tool in Microsoft paint.
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