The I/O Brush

These days it seems like most toys for kids end up using technology as a substitute for imagination, but MIT's Media Lab is developing toys to help kids learn and invent without restricting them to wooden blocks, Legos, and Playmobil sets. Their new I/O Brush is a digital paint brush with a camera and sensors embedded in the business end. The idea is that kids pick a paint color and texture by pointing the brush at an object in the real world — a sort of visual sampling — and then they paint the sample on a digital screen.

[Via FilterFine]