GameDev.net Forum Thread About Wacom

More proof that Wacom is the preferred tablet of graphic designers and digital artists! Read the full thread at GameDev.net.

I considered buying a tablet. I’ve heard here and there that WACOM is one of the best choices to make. Since I am planning to use a tablet mainly with Photoshop and rarely Autodesk products I read the certifications in the official websites. I, however, thought it would be better if I asked “know how” people about the choice of a tablet.

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Samsung Highlights the Galaxy Note’s Wacom Digitizer

I'm glad to see that we will be able to use Photoshop Touch and possibly other drawing apps on more than just the iPad.

Galaxy Note is the first device that incorporates their pen input experience into a smartphone form factor. Samsung is taking advantage of the tech with modifications to its TouchWiz interface, plus custom note, writing and art apps that allow for true graphics tablet functions on the five-inch device. Imagine using something like Photoshop Touch on that sensitive screen. Samsung’s SDK will allow third-party developers to take advantage of the hardware as well.

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New Pen from Wacom: Chromopen

The new Wacom Chromopen is a great digitizer for choosing colors in your art design.

Point & Shoot Tablet Pen

As digi-painting application technology expands, so does the need for digital artistry tools. The Chromopen concept makes choosing colors for matte-painting a cinch. The user simply points and shoots the Chromopen’s built-in camera to catch colors directly from the scene they’re painting, simultaneously broadening their understanding of color tones. Genius!

via yankodesign.com

ICEFIRE Medical Technology Uses Wacom Digitizer

I always find it interesting when I come across other uses for Wacom digitizers. This one is sure to help improve the medical field.

ICP Electronics Australia presents the ICEFIRE 10.4” Mobile Clinic Assistant, an IP64 compliant medical-use tablet PC, which is based on Intel and Windows open architecture.

The ICEFIRE 10.4” features dual mode input that utilises both WACOM digitiser and traditional resistive touch input with auto-sensing and auto-switching. The ICEFIRE also includes dual hot swappable batteries, wireless and advanced data acquisition technologies with inbuilt Gobi 2000 and RF technologies.

The ICEFIRE 10.4” Mobile Clinic Assistant can make wireless connections to WLAN and WAN and can be customised to meet the needs of point of care and other healthcare applications.  This allows the medical-use tablets to offer safer, more efficient and higher quality patient care in medical services.

The ICEFIRE 10.4” Mobile Clinic Assistant tablet PCs are available from ICP Electronics Australia and comes in an ergonomic and lightweight design.

via ferret.com.au