It's not everyday that you get blown away by something that screams "Welcome to the Future", but seeing this on Kickstarter today just blew my mind:
This is literally letting someone draw in the air and have their doodles extruded as 3D plastic.
Now my free-form art would probably look a lot like what is pictured here, but for an artist to be able to sketch off the paper is just insane. Not to mention creating "sketches" of graphs or molecules or even a face.
Since I work in a museum, we are always trying to have that wow moment. That time when you push a kid to see into the future and see themselves doing the impossible. That moment that will bring teachers, parents, kids etc back. And once this tool becomes available, I can just picture that spark in a kids eyes when they can sign there name in mid-air and take it home with them. That's a wow. And so is this project.
And I'm obviously not the only one to think so. Day 1 of their kickstarter, their 30 day goal was $30,000. In the last 20 minutes they've gone from $960K to $974K. They need to come up with some multi-million dollar stretch goals. Can I suggest a museum-ready super-durable version :)
