Designer Stefan Rechsteiner has come up with the Couleur sur l’Objet concept as a modern way of applying “urban art” to walls in hard-to-reach places. Equipped with a can of spray paint, the little tyke would be like a badly-behaved roomba with a vacuum-suction mod to keep it in place. With its accompanying design software, you could presumably use to it create large-scale murals on walls that would previously have required some serious (and conspicuous) ladder-work. Town councils everywhere had better invest in new graffiti-cleaning tech of their own— we suspect this won’t remain a concept for too long. [Yanko Design]
Hammerite’s new Metalmaster system speeds up the whole process of painting metal stuff by spraying all sides of an object at the same time. You just clip the gun to the object with a wire, and electrostatic charging means that the thing you’re painting actually attracts the paint particles. This means no brush marks, as well as an even, all-over coat. It only works for metal things, and you need to use specially formulated paint, but it sounds so cool that I want to try it out, and I don’t even have anything to paint! Available soon in the UK, for around US$80 for the gun and US$30 for a 750ml paint tin. AU: I remember seeing this on Beyond 2000 (or something similar) years ago it’s good to see that it’s now actually a consumer product.
I hate coming home to Georgia during the summer because it’s hot and muggy as balls—granted NYC sidewalks in the summer make you feel like you’re walking on a clay oven. But Osaka’s Kiribai Chemical Co. has us covered with its canned “ice spray,” which blasts -10-degree (C) frost into your face (you’re supposed to hit a towel to wipe your face with, but whatever—frostbite feels fine right about now).
The spray works out to a little under 10 cents a shot since it boasts 70 pumps per bottle at two second intervals and runs about $6.50 a can. Or you could buy a three dollar bottle of canned air, turn it upside down, and my guess is get more or less the same effect—I’ve frozen many a foe (and friend) with my ghetto Mr. Freeze tactics. – Matt Buchanan
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