Drawing

​A couple of years ago, design firm Carlo Ratti Associati showcased a system in which drones were used to draw images on walls. It was very clever, but perhaps not something that could become a commercial product. The company's Scribit wall-drawing robot, however, is intended to be just that.

​Google’s AI Experiments has been slowly dropping fascinating artistic or creative uses of its neural network code for some time now.​ The latest innovation from the program is Autodraw, a sketch-pad with a neural network that predicts what you are trying to draw and offers clip art alternatives.

The Chameleon Pen is an art pen, the ink color tone of which changes as you draw. Its makers are now back with Chameleon Pens Color Tops, that change between two completely different colors.​

​At CES this week, Dell unveiled a few nifty ideas, including the Canvas digital artist's workstation, a 32-inch monitor bursting with 8K resolution, a wirelessly chargeable 2-in-1, and a refresh of the company's other laptops, AIOs and monitors.

The newly-announced reMarkable “paper tablet” is designed to replace your ancillary papers – notes, sketches and documents included – in a single device that offers a convincing real-paper look and feel.

There’s an analogy to be made between the Lenovo Yoga Book and its namesake practice. Done well, yoga provides functional fitness for any task at hand. When poorly executed, it’s frustrating and injurious. The Yoga Book lands somewhere in between.

It’s been a couple of years since we first tried out the 3Doodler – a pen that lets you draw in three dimensions using molten plastic. Now the company is back with its latest offering – the 3Doodler Create, bringing improved reliability and some cool new design elements.

The Chameleon Pen is a single pen capable of producing multiple color tones. Using a special mixing nib filled with toner, the Chameleon Pen is able to produce different shades, from light to dark and back again.

Sometimes you may want to keep a digital record of your notes or sketches. If you haven't got access to a computer or you'd simply prefer to use a pen, however, digitizing your content can be problematic. The new Orée Stylograph pen, however, will digitize what you write or draw as you go.

Drawing or making notes with a computer pen or stylus doesn't have the same feeling as using a paper and pen. Sometimes, however, you want to digitize something that you've drawn or written by hand. The new Moleskine Livescribe notebooks let you do both at the same time.