Digital tablets like the Wacom Bamboo and Intous series might be great peripherals for digitizing hand movements and sketching, but it is still different than using a real pen on real paper. The Wacom Cintiq comes close allowing you to use the pen directly on the screen but it is still an electronic stylus instead of an ink pen.
Wacom and E FUN have recently announced similar products that allow the user to write on any pad of paper with a special ink pen and receiver that tracks the pens movements. This way you can naturally draw or write while creating a digital image.
Wacom Inkling
The Inkling uses a pressure sensitive ink pen and receiver that clips to the top of a pad of paper. The data can be exported to Adobe Photoshop as a raster file or Adobe Illustrator as a line-and-node vector file (CS3 or newer). The Inkling can also export to Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 2011, as well as Wacom's own Sketch Manager that includes a few feature to manipulate your drawing. The Inkling has over 2,000 pressure points something that sizes up to the pressure sensitivity of Wacom's other popular tablet styluses.
The Inkling should be available to purchase later on this month.
E FUN APEN
E FUN's APEN is similar to the Inkling in the way it works. There is an ink pen that sends the information to a receiver that you place on the top of a pad or piece of paper. The APEN does not, however, have a pressure sensitive pen like the Inkling. The APEN does have the option of using Bluetooth to send pen strokes to a compatible. cell phone or the data can be stored to transfer through USB to a computer.
Links:
Wacom Inkling on Gizmag.com
Inkling Official Product Page
E FUN APEN on Gizmag.com
APEN Official Product Page
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