While there are other ink-to-digital pens out there, the difference here is Wacom’s pressure technology. Recording 1024 levels of pressure, the Inkling will capture ever nuance in your drawings. This is how it works:
• Take the stylus and receiver out of the neat portable box.
• Clip the receiver on top of any paper notebook and start drawing. Don’t worry about space: the receiver can store thousands of pages, according to Wacom.
• When you are done after a day, connect the receiver connects to the computer via USB and browse all your drawings, exporting the ones you like to files.
That’s one of the beauties of this. From their Inkling Sketch Manager you can rasterise your drawings at print resolution and export them to Photoshop. Or even better: you can export as a vector illustration to Adobe Illustrator, which will allow you to re-work your lines in any way you want.
The Wacom Inkling comes with a pen, receiver, rechargeable batteries, four spare pen ink cartridges, charging case and the Inkling Sketch Manager Application, which is neatly store in the Inkling receiver. I’m so spending $US200 on this when it comes out in the second half of September.
Cameron
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 8:34 AMThat looks pretty cool actually. I like the vector part, would be interested to see how well it works in real life.
EckyThump
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 8:45 AMYeah, saw this on ‘Gizmag’ yesterday, all I can say is,..want!! #]
olearymo
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 9:18 AMI’m quite fascinated by this, and disturbed by Jesus’ need to describe himself as erect.
Gino Rodrigo
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 9:54 AMCount me in on this one. This is a day one sale and will probably give my workhorse intuos2 a rest.
DR
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 9:57 AMJust take my money now..
Jester
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 10:15 AMThis sweet little thing is making we wish I could draw so I had an excuse to buy it!!
Terry
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 4:56 PMconsider the excuse of learning then.
That’s my approach.
I need this to actually learn.
Didn’t say it was a good excuse, but it is an excuse nonetheless.
Pardon me, I’m off to get some coin together.
Janos
Monday, September 5, 2011 at 11:31 PMA dream come true. First I saw it I thought it’s just a concept.
My only question is:
How much an ink cartridge will cost?
Binky
Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 11:44 AMI heard it uses so e kind of standard cartridges u can get down the newsagents, that was my first worry as well.
fabio
Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 9:35 AMwhen will it be selling in australia?? i feel like we are so behind with all products
Mango
Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 12:13 PMI might buy direct from the US – you think i’d face any issues doing that? CBF waiting, and it’s cheaper there anyway
Jackson Bison
Monday, October 24, 2011 at 5:25 PMI bought something like this about 10 years ago, and it was pretty awful. It didn’t track the tip of the pen, but a point about 10mm up from the point, therefore as soon as you changed the way you were holding the pen, or drew from a different angle (like most of us sketchy people do), it would mean nothing matched up properly, and accuracy was about 5mm at best, and 20mm at worst!
That was a while ago, and I’d be willing to bet this would be a lot better…