Wacom is covering all grounds lately with new products. Their latest is the Bamboo Pad, a touch surface with the gesture control the likes of an Apple Magic Trackpad, with some added functionality for drawing and jotting down notes.
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The Bamboo Pad touts the ability to recognize when you are using the included stylus versus when you are using your fingers, thus allowing a more natural drawing/writing experience without the interference of your palm. If the gestures we know and love remain intact, the stylus option could be a nice way of adding handwritten notes to documents, or doing simple sketching. The stylus has 512 levels of pressure sensitivity. While that doesn’t reach the 2000+ levels of Wacom’s higher-end devices, it should be more than enough for casual use.
The Bamboo Pad will work across Mac and Windows platforms, though if you have a Mac you will need to install a driver, whereas the Pad will work out of the box with Windows 7 and 8. The wireless version will be $80, and the wired USB version will be $50, both available in September from the Wacom eStore.
