Innovative concept pen by Korean designer Jinsu Park allows you to scan any color from your environment and instantly use it for drawing.
The color is detected by the RGB Color Sensor inside the pen, then the red, green, and blue inks are mixed together to create the desired color.
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Manish Ahuja
Oh! That’s mind blowing! Brilliant!!!
Sep 12th, 2009
PK
It’s a great idea, but RGB is only for video displays. For this to actually work in real life, it would have to be CMYK ink cartridges.
Sep 12th, 2009
Sachawinter
Wow! Buy me one? It would have to be an extremely solid color that you would “choose” though right?
Sep 12th, 2009
firemark
Nice :)
Sep 12th, 2009
Gina
can you keep changing colors, or is it a 1 time use pen?
Sep 12th, 2009
derschreckliche
Very nice thing, where can i get one?
Does it really work like this?
Sep 12th, 2009
Ben
PK is correct, the mockups show Red, Green and Blue inks. These are additive primary colours suitable for projections and tv screens etc. Inks require Cyan, Magenta and Yellow since they operate in a subtractive colour space. The concept could work, it’s just a shame the designer doesn’t correctly understand how colours work.
It would be even better if White ink was included as well as black, that way the pen could work as any ink colour on any surface colour.
Sep 12th, 2009
Daniel
pk and ben are right – bring it in cmyk and it will blow minds – but this is “only” an idea, transposed with money in the back :/
Sep 12th, 2009
Kris
WOW! This is cool!
Sep 13th, 2009
mostafa
useful and possible!
Sep 13th, 2009
karamdad
This is the best
Sep 13th, 2009
DZRTJUL
Way too cool!!
Sep 13th, 2009
erick
really exists¿?
Sep 13th, 2009
tech-mad
very innovative!
Sep 13th, 2009
Gabr13l
Very nice ! :D
Sep 13th, 2009
edmonds2007
Great concept but really doubt it can be produced for practical/economic use.
Sep 13th, 2009
Bersam
This is Awesome !!! really nicE !
Sep 13th, 2009
Michael
Yawn.
This is “so last year”
I’m now more interested in the new “Chefs Stylo”
With it, anyone, and I mean ANYone can reproduce (and print out via blue tooth or USB) the recipes of any ‘dish’ into which the Stylo has been inserted.
CSI meets Culini
Sep 13th, 2009
-Rokitman-
Cool concept. And very true about the RBG ink carts. This would basically be a hand held printer and would have to use similar inks. But when did it become necessary to create a perfect color match for use in a hand held writing device?
Any art student knows that inks of any color can be purchased for a fraction of what this thing will cost. The combined cost of a micro scanner and printhead in the tip of a pen would make this unattainable for the average graphic ~ starving ~ artist. Not to mention the cost of ink cartridges and whatever proprietary battery this will run on.
A travel case with a collection of 20 or 30 ink shades would be much more practical and cost effective.
But you gotta hand it to those crafty Japs for their innovative designs.
Sep 13th, 2009
lol
Do we really need this people ? jesus, where’s the fn 1mm thin display????? damn
Sep 13th, 2009
itsbrandnew
Brilliant idea! It would be more wonderful if it was erasable! I’ll have to get one! :)
Sep 13th, 2009
JK
Cool Innovation Idea !!!
Sep 13th, 2009
Karin Stewart
Think of the posibilities of the use of this pen! Certainly for more creative things than just the old snail mail.
Sep 14th, 2009
Dhananjay Abhang
Wow! it’s really good instrument for painters. it will be helpful to them.
Sep 14th, 2009
Numanul Subhani
Brilliant idea…. certainly it would be a good companion for art sutdents…
Sep 14th, 2009
Lolly
Would the tip have to be cleaned out after each color? And how would the inks mix, exactly? They can’t mix on the page, and mixing in the pen would waste ink!
Sep 14th, 2009
Phil
Pretty interesting idea, however scanning colors from nature would almost be impossible since its a gradient of colors, not a single color, and wouldn’t match.
Sep 15th, 2009
Markus
I want this pen!
Sep 17th, 2009
Miss Bathory
Wow, this is what I really need.! Where can I find one?
Sep 17th, 2009
l.d.s.
that is ridiculously amazing.
Sep 20th, 2009
jonathan
i never think about that before,
freakin awesome..
Sep 22nd, 2009
Yasser
This is hands down one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while.
Sep 24th, 2009
Marius
Right, RGB is for light… if you mix R, G and B you will get white light but black ink.
Sep 24th, 2009
ines
Verry good
Oct 5th, 2009
joelle chehade
Very nice thing, where can i get one?
Oct 6th, 2009
s
WOW!!so magical.please tell me where can i get one.
Oct 6th, 2009
Charles Cohen
Love your concept. Would like to put on TV via an informercial. If interested email me at above address.
Oct 11th, 2009
Kevin
Typical designer: doesn’t even do enough background research to realize that RGB ink won’t create anything besides shades of dark.
Nov 14th, 2009
rubia
wow im impressed now as a artist sell me 1
Dec 8th, 2009
cchana
WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT!
Jan 21st, 2010
Klaatu
I want one of these too….
Jan 21st, 2010
DZRTJUL
COOL!!
Jan 21st, 2010
Cam
Where can i buy one of these things!?!?!?
Jan 24th, 2010
Fresh
Most definitely an amazing concept, but I have to agree with Ben, the designer doesn’t know anything about how colors work
Jan 26th, 2010
bebop
The chick is pretty hot…
Feb 6th, 2010
Brian
No she isn’t, she’s Asian . . .
Feb 8th, 2010
c0mpumast3r
I really dont know why there are so many people in here that are devil’s advocate. They keep on providing the negative sides of a concept. Just to remind those “devils” out there that this innovation is still just a concept. Further improvements will pursue later…
Though, their “rat ta ta…” explanations about CMYK and RGB are correct, but we have to be reminded that the concept is about picking colors from the real world. CMYK and RGB choices are out of the story.
It would be better to go back to your desk guys and do some interesting stuff, rather than looking for some negatives of a concept, which is supposed to be not your work.
Feb 8th, 2010
Brian_fool
And Asian’s dont like fools like Brian.
Feb 8th, 2010
Cyclorama Henri
OH GOD DAMN! THAT IS SO BLOWING YOUR MIND! The first time I see this, I think, how the hell can the colors come out? now after I see it, I understand the concept! this thing uses color scanner to scan colors, then led to make light(maybe), and then, with the RGB tint, the pen makes the color! so coool concept! I wanna buy this if I can find this on store!
Mar 30th, 2010
Juan C Walls
Well, it is true that RGB cartridges would not work at all (think for a moment, how do you mix for a colour like yellow?).
The CMYK cartridges make more sense but still have some problems. Imagine you want to create a pale magenta. Ok, you inject ink just from the magenta cartridge but how do you create a pale magenta and not a fully tinted magenta? The only way i think it could work is with a fifth cartridge with transparent ink so you can add a little drops of magenta to the transparent ink to create the pale magenta. I don’t know if such a device can be created in the limited space of a stylus. It is not exactly like an inkjet printer head and cartridge. The printer drops tiny drops of ink on the paper that generate the visual effect of the desired colours but this device should continually generate an homogeneous mix of ink and it should be ready to generate a different mix as son as you scan a new colour, so what does it do with the previos ink still in the deposit? it should be a very tiny deposit and you probably had the draw a few lines in a paper until the new colour flows clean. But imagine a printer, take off all the moving parts that move the paper in and out and the print head left to right. Just keep the printer head, ink cartridges and circuitry. And you still have to fit all this stuff into a stylus, batteries included!
But a device that makes more sense, it is fairy simply to produce and still very useful for digital artists would be the colour picker with an USB interface to use with paint programs. Imagine you can point it to an object and use its colour in the program or ever better for illustrators: you can point the device to a pantone sample and use that exact colour in your design. Or point it to a previously designed object and determine what pantone colour is the closest for using it in their corporate imagery.
Apr 8th, 2010
big brow
its awesome
May 30th, 2010
Jim Bessey
OK, how about a flying car with the ability to scan and determine the color of the sky around it. Then the skin of the car morphs into the identical hue. Voila ~ invisible airplane!
Hey, it could happen…
Sep 21st, 2010
S.Dineshkumar
First I like appreciate Mr.Jinsu Park. This color picker pen is very useful to every one in future. This is one of the best protect in this calender year. Thank you… All the best for your next protect.
Feb 28th, 2011
Arisio Rabin
I need a Color Picker Pen, How, where can I buy one
May 5th, 2011
katerina reppa
where can i get it please ?
thank you
Aug 18th, 2011
wahid
nice
Sep 3rd, 2011
Simon
What about yellow or orange? its a great idea, but it needs more work. I like the design.
Dec 14th, 2011
Helen
Wow.This is amazing.I LOVE IT!!
Feb 13th, 2012
Thulsi
Really cool….
Mar 23rd, 2012
madhu
Really innovative, I like it…
Aug 26th, 2012
ruby
are they for sale??
Sep 16th, 2012
Kailee
its true that you wouldnt be able to use RBG color cartridges but…what if you start out with those colors and have to buy the CMYK colors and they could make it inter changeable…
Jan 3rd, 2013
Elizabeth
Where can i get this color pen maker. How much
Mar 25th, 2013
Sonnet
Where can I buy one?
Jun 29th, 2013
Artemy
Wow, this is amazing! I would really like to know where I can get one so I can use it at school.
Nov 26th, 2014
Banu
can anyone tell the complete technology and materials used in color picker by Jinsun park
Jul 16th, 2015