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Title: Motion-tracked inkjet - A new kind of graffiti in your palm?
Post by: Floid on June 27, 2003, 01:34:23 AM

Via The Inquirer (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10182), one of the coolest things I've seen in a while - PrintDreams (http://www.printdreams.com) have applied optical motion-tracking to printers, creating a mouse-like puck that literally 'paints on' data. (http://www.printdreams.com/inside/rmpt.html)  While it doesn't look fun for multipage documents, they've got something going for the artistic and inventory fields.

Check out the samples (http://www.printdreams.com/inside/printouts_4.html) - brings a new meaning to 'applying a brush!'

Title: Re: Motion-tracked inkjet - A new kind of graffiti in your p
Post by: gary_c on June 27, 2003, 02:57:49 AM

Looks like a lot of fun. I can imagine my kids "printing" tattoos on themselves.  :-)

How about mini-graffiti?

You know how when you're painting a piece of furniture and then you finish but you've  still got a paintbrush laden with nice red paint, or whatever, and you look around for something else to turn red? That's how I'd feel with one of these printers.... Hmm, what else can I put my business card on? ......  ;-)

-- gary_c

Title: Re: Motion-tracked inkjet - A new kind of graffiti in your p
Post by: Floid on June 27, 2003, 06:33:24 AM

Those thoughts came to mind. :-D  Also interesting that you could use it for signage on 'unusual' surfaces- glass storefronts, say (on second thought, optical trackers don't work well on glass; you could trick it by sticking up a bit of screen if they never make a specialized variant) ... load it with an etchant and do a piece of stone, or a mask material for doing circuit boards...

As downsides, I'm sure folk'll find it hard to *avoid* marring furniture with these, as it naturally rests jet-side down (darker surfaces could be saved by reflectivity-detection), and I'd hate to see some poor mail clerk stuck 'ironing' a stack of envelopes for hours on end - hard to imagine a quicker path to RSI.

Title: Re: Motion-tracked inkjet - A new kind of graffiti in your p
Post by: whabang on June 27, 2003, 09:27:49 AM

I WANT ONE I WANT ONE I WANT ONE I WANT ONE!!!!! :-D  :-D  :-D

Title: Re: Motion-tracked inkjet - A new kind of graffiti in your p
Post by: DanDude on June 27, 2003, 06:12:18 PM

[color=0000FF]OOooooo...[/color][/b]

That's going on my Christmas wish list!!   :-D

Title: Re: Motion-tracked inkjet - A new kind of graffiti in your p
Post by: Waccoon on June 28, 2003, 03:41:09 AM

Wow, pretty neat!

Reminds me of those hand-held scanners, though.   :-D