What next? Draw 3D objects in the air?

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I’m excited. I saw a tweet last week from Design Milk, which immediately sent me to the Kickstarter website. A 3D doodling pen? I am a sucker for new gadgets, and have always been an early adopter. Sometimes these early adoptions fail (like the translation pen I have gathering dust at home: you scan a piece of text and the translation appears in a window on the side of the pen. I thought it was neat, but actually don’t think I ever used it in earnest). BUT when I saw a video of this pen in operation, I just had to have one. Why? I love drawing, and am especially fixated on line drawing. And I like making 3D objects out of paper. Sooo, it makes perfect sense to me. I also like the idea of supporting a project through Kickstarter. Photographer tutor Jose Navarro has written about crowd funding before here – That is what Kickstarter is, a way of gathering crowds of people, using the power of social media, to back ideas. It’s a great way of getting the finances for creative projects sorted without going anywhere near a bank. Since their launch in 2009, Kickstarter have provoked $450 million to be pledged by more than 3 million people, funding more than 35,000 creative projects.
Now this fantastic little 3D doodling pen idea has certainly taken off on Kickstarter. They were looking for $30,000 and so far (still a couple of weeks to go) have raised $1,920,630. What do you get if you back the project? Well, it depends how much you put in. I have put in enough to have earned one of the first release pens at the beginning of 2014, plus 10 bags of plastic to feed the pen with.