COLOR PICKER

RED DOT:

Red Dot award: design concept 2008

Color Picker is a pen that enables colors in the environment to be scanned and instantly used for drawing.

The things around us, whether natural or artificial, display an infinite and diverse range of beautiful colors from which we are able to draw much inspiration. Color Picker is a pen that allows the user to scan and immediately use any color they see. The user is not only able to scan colors from objects in the environment, but also from color chips. Color Picker is convenient and easy to use. The pen is placed against an object and the user presses the color scan button. The color sensor detects the color and displays it on the color display. The RGB cartridge located within the pen mixes the inks to create the color scanned. The user is then able to use the color to draw.

Color Picker aids in the observation of nature’s changing colors. Most people paint the leaves of trees green, despite the fact that they change their color according to the seasons. With Color Picker, children as well as adults are able to develop a more acute sensorial and visual perception of the colors of nature that surround them. The user will be able to develop their own palette of of colors, such as “winter apple” or “tree on a gloomy day”. Color Picker is an innovative design of a concept pen that can scan colors from anything around and instantly use the color for drawing. After placing the pen against an object, the user just presses the scan button. The color is being detected by the color sensor and the RGB cartridge of the pen mixes the required inks to create the target color. This superb device will help people to observe the changing colors of nature. With color picker, all range of artists will be able to cerate a more sensorial and visual insight of their surrounding nature’s colors.