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Turn your Wacom tablet into a Cintiq clone with new kit and some elbow grease

, Mar 15th 2010 Discuss [0]

If you are the artsy type that uses a Wacom tablet to draw on your computer, you may have lusted after one of the sweet Cintiq displays that let you draw right on the screen rather than use a tablet. You may have been bummed at the price of the Cintiq screens too at well over $1000. Read The Full Story

Wacom Cintiq 21UX: $2k of 21-inch super-sensitive graphics tablet

, Mar 1st 2010 Discuss [0]

Wacom have announced their latest Cintiq combination LCD display and graphics tablet, and it's a monster.  The Wacom Cintiq 21UX has a full 21.3-inch 1600 x 1200 4:3 LCD display and an active digitizer that recognizes 2048 levels of pressure.  They've also thrown plenty of hardware controls at the tablet; the Cintiq 21UX has eight programmable shortcut buttons on either side of the display, together with a touch-strip on either side of the rear bezel. Read The Full Story

Wacom adds new DTU-2231 and DTU-1631 interactive pen displays to line

, Feb 18th 2010 Discuss [0]

Wacom has a huge variety of products for consumers, design pros, and specialty industries. Most consumers probably know Wacom most for their consumer oriented graphics tablets like the Intuos4 that debuted earlier this month. Wacom has announced two new additions to its pen display line for specialty industries today. Read The Full Story

iRex DR800SG hits Best Buy online

, 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

, 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

, 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]

, 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

, 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

, 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

, 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

, 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

, 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
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