Wacom Inkling

Came across this today and wow! I have been hoping for ages something like this would come out but Wacom took it further than I had thought. Like the button so your sketches and designs can be on separate layers! Pure genius!

This new Wacom system combines a digital sketch pen (it makes like a pen or pencil) with a clip-on receiver, which digitally records each stroke of the pen. Your drawings can then be rasterized or vectorised, uploaded to your computer and imported to either Photoshop or Illustrator or saved as an image file!

Basically this is how it works:

• You take the stylus and receiver out of the cool little box.
• Clip the receiver on the top of any paper, notebook.etc and start drawing. According to Wacom the receiver can store thousands of pages so very handy.
• Press the button on the receiver to create new layers.
• When you are done, connect the receiver to a computer via USB and you can see all your drawings. Export the one you want to use to Photoshop or Illustrator or any typical graphic format. ie. TIFF, JPG, BMP.

The Inkling will cost around £125 +VAT and comes with a pen, receiver, rechargeable batteries, four spare pen ink cartridges, charging case and the Inkling Sketch Manager Application, which is neatly stored in the Inkling receiver. It will be available from October 2011. When it does get released I will post a link on here for where you can buy it.