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iRex DR800SG hits Best Buy online

Chris Davies, Feb 17th 2010 Discuss [1]

Chalk this up under "about time"; iRex have been in touch to tell us that their DR800SG ebook reader is now up for sale at Best Buy. $399.99 gets you an 8.1-inch 768 x 1024 e-paper display, 3G connectivity and a Wacom active digitizer for note-taking. Read The Full Story

Wacom Intuos4 Wireless Bluetooth graphics tablet debuts

Chris Davies, Feb 1st 2010 Discuss [2]

Wacom have quietly outed a new active graphics tablet, the Bluetooth-enabled Wacom Intuos4 Wireless. The new model has an 8 x 5 inch active area, slotting in just underneath the regular, wired Intuos4 Medium announced last March, and hooks up to a PC or Mac via Bluetooth; battery life is up to 18 hours (though not of continuous use) and it recharges via USB (and can be used in tethered mode). Video overview after the cut Read The Full Story

BeBook Neo ereader: WiFi and Wacom touchscreen

Chris Davies, Jan 22nd 2010 Discuss [1]

It's obviously the day for wireless ebook readers, with BeBook announcing that they're taking preorders for their new BeBook Neo ereader. Packing a 6-inch E Ink panel with a Wacom touchscreen, the Neo may not have integrated 3G like some rivals we've seen, but it does get WiFi for accessing a range of third-party ebook stores. Read The Full Story

Astri MID mini dual-display Android ebook reader [Video]

Chris Davies, Jan 18th 2010 Discuss [0]

The Entourage eDGe dual-display clamshell netbook is great, if you don't mind toting a rucksack all the time, but what if you'd prefer something a little more pocket-friendly? Tucked away at CES 2010 was Astri's E Ink ereader, an Android-based mini-me version of the eDGe with a 5-inch Wacom touchscreen epaper panel on the left and a 4.8-inch WVGA LCD touchscreen on the right. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Axiotron Modbooks get cheaper

Chris Davies, Nov 12th 2009 Discuss [1]

Axiotron's Modbook has long been the only semi-official way to get an Apple tablet, with the company taking a pre-unibody MacBook and swiftly twisting it into a Wacom-enabled touchscreen slate. While we loved our review unit, we weren't too keen on the high price; happily OWC - one of Axiotron's official distribution and conversion agents - have announced a slash of both new and conversion pricing. Read The Full Story

Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch reviewed: decent entry-level tablet

Chris Davies, Sep 25th 2009 Discuss [3]

Wacom may have only made their new Bamboo tablet range official yesterday, but eagle-eyed early adopters have been picking them up in stores for over a week now. BestTabletReview have been putting the Bamboo Pen & Touch Fun - which has both an active digitizer stylus for precise control and artwork, and a multitouch layer for recognizing finger-touch and gestures - through its paces, compared to Wacom's well-considered Graphite tablet. Read The Full Story

Wacom Bamboo tablets get official: multitouch and pen input

Chris Davies, Sep 24th 2009 Discuss [1]

Wacom have finally got around to officially announcing [pdf link] their Bamboo Touch multitouch tablet, a week after at least one person was able to pick one up from their local Best Buy. The Wacom Bamboo Touch is one of the company's second generation of the Bamboo line, which also includes the Bamboo Pen & Touch, which responds both to a pen stylus (for accuracy) as well as fingers. The tablet automatically switches between the two modes, depending on whether the user has touched the surface with their finger or if the stylus nib is near. Read The Full Story

Wacom Bamboo Touch multitouch tablet sold early, video reviewed

Chris Davies, Sep 17th 2009 Discuss [0]

Wacom's upcoming Bamboo Touch multitouch tablet has not only been spotted in the wild, but prematurely bought, unboxed and reviewed, all with no official word from Wacom themselves. Meanwhile, Wacom's corporate site has confirmed that [pdf link] they've begun mass production of a Windows 7 compatible multitouch panels for notebooks, which can be combined with the company's pen sensor. Video unboxing and review after the cut Read The Full Story

Green-House Japan LCD graphics tablet takes on Wacom Cintiq

Chris Davies, Aug 18th 2009 Discuss [0]

Green-House Japan have announced their new graphics-tablet-cum-LCD-display, and unfortunately the one thing we really want to know about the 17-inch device - how it compares, price-wise, to Wacom's Cintiq 12WX or PL-900, both exceedingly expensive - is left unsaid. What we do know about the GH-PTB17-E is that it has a 1,280 x 1,024 LCD paired with a wireless pen capable of 512 levels of pressure resolution. Read The Full Story

La Guitare à Crayon: Wacom meets acoustic guitar [Video]

Chris Davies, Jul 15th 2009 Discuss [0]

An acoustic instrument bristling with buttons and knobs is always off to a good start, but Patrick Sébastien Coulombe's "la Guitare à crayon" goes a few steps further into strangeness. Taking the body of an acoustic guitar and then strapping a Wacom digitizer to the front, the unusual instrument translates sketched images into sound. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

iTab DIY active-digitizer MacBook project

Chris Davies, May 26th 2009 Discuss [0]

Touchscreen MacBook conversions aren't new, and in fact if you've got the money then we'll be the first to say that the Axiotron ModBook is a great off-the-shelf OS X tablet. If, though, you don't have the money and you want the accuracy of a Wacom active digitizer, you might have to replicate Wei's iTab project: merging a Wacom Intuos tablet with a first-gen 1.83GHz MacBook. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Wacom Intuos4 tablets launch: Video Unboxing & Demo

Chris Davies, Mar 25th 2009 Discuss [0]

Wacom's new Intuos4 graphics tablet range has launched on the company's European website, offering a range of four sizes each with 5,080 lpi resolution and 2,048 pressure levels. As well as pen-input, the new tablets have eight customizable ExpressKeys with OLED displays (six, with no OLED, on the smallest model) to show their current assignment. Video unboxing and demonstrations after the cut Read The Full Story