Perfect for the android who is bored with cat related poetry.

Say, Bill. Would you rub some of this cadmium yellow on my lips?

Edit: And I thought to go to the artist’s link in the original article:

Although it does not paint, I’ve decided I can at least re-type my artist statement with the thing, so long as I can limit it to a paragraph. It ought to be equally decipherable as any other statement I’ve read lately.

“with color pads and hue labels to create a functional painting typewriter, dubbed the Chromatic Typewriter” 

Suggests that this device actually works.  Likely they forgot to do fact-checking. 

It’s a slice of art-major gobbledygook, is what it is. If this works as suggested, I’ll see your hat, and raise you my shorts. (So to speak.)

But it’d be super cool to see something it did produce, even if it meant re-applying color to each key after every 3rd keystroke… Ascii art gets another dimension.

If you *really* wanted something like this to work, you’d do away with the ribbon concept entirely.  I’d replace the key elements with small felt/foam bits. Above each, I’d implement some sort of “replenisher”… a small reservoir of pigment fed to the felt/form by capillary action once the element came back down.  Likely have to reduce the number of keys to get enough room.   Hmmm…I suppose all you’d need is 4 keys for CYMK process?  

That is a simply wonderful thing. My day just got much better.