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Gadgets – March 2010

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Samsung MD320 Samsung's six-panel monitor is the first to show multi-screen high def. When paired with an AMD graphics processor, it can show one image (as large as a 60-inch display) or six separate views . $3,100 Whirlpool Vantage This Whirlpool is the first washer you can teach how to handle clothes. Its built-in USB port will soon let you add custom cycles (downloaded to a flash drive from your computer) for garment-specific instructions . Price not set Sharp Aquos LE920 Our eyes are capable of seeing millions of colors, and this HDTV is the first to re-create just as many. Sharp's LCD adds a separate yellow filter to the usual red, blue and green, so it can mix more than a trillion colors . From $3,600 (est.) New Kinetix Re The Re dongle and its app make your iPhone a remote. Its infrared emitter stores the codes for your TV and other devices, which it can learn from other remotes by capturing and replicating their signals . Price not set Recon-Zeal Transcend Read your cur...

COLOR-PICKING PEN CONCEPT IMAGINES REAL-WORLD PHOTOSHOP EYEDROPPER TOOL

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Designer dreams up pen that perfectly replicates colors in the environment Real-life Photoshop Tool: Now if only they found some way to make an "undo" function in real life By Stuart Fox Most of the Photoshop tools familiar to artists import old school analog devices onto the computer. Before computers, artists would use actual razors to crop, and physical scissors and glue to cut and paste. But South Korean designer Jinsun Park has envisioned a pen that reverses the process, taking a tool developed for the computer and porting it to physical reality. Park has designed a concept pen that adapts Photoshop's eyedropper tool for real life. On one end of the pen is a camera that captures a complex, real world color. Then, like an inkjet printer, a computer in the pen calculates the mixture of red, green and blue ink needed to replicate the color photographed by the camera. Ink in the perfect proportions then flows out of the ball point on the other end of the pen. Col...