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Robots
“Couleur Sur l’Object” Graffiti Robot Turns Vandalism All-Electronic
11:00PM Gizmodo US Edition | 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]
Gadgets
Hammerite Metalmaster Makes Painting Even Easier: Both Sides at Once
9:36PM Gizmodo US Edition | 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. [Hammerite, T3 —thanks, Jez.] More »
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