Just like the first writing instruments in Asia created from bamboo and fur, Wacom’s new Bamboo and Bamboo Fun reinvent the pen for the 21st century and offer new inking freedoms.

Now, you can use a pen to create expressive content, personalize communications and navigate more freely. Wacom Technology Corp. introduces Bamboo, an all new family of pen tablets. This new family of human interface devices includes Bamboo and Bamboo Fun, two distinct pen tablets that provide a natural, personal and creative digital input experience in any home or work environment.

Personalize

Add your own distinctive touch. Change the face of your communications by handwriting notes, making quick sketches, and adding your personal signature to digital documents. With the natural feel of pen-on-paper, Bamboo makes it quick and easy for you to get your point across.

Write

Express yourself. Combine Bamboo with Mac Inkwell or Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007 to jot notes, handwrite email, mark up documents, and enter handwritten text anywhere typed text is accepted. Bamboo gives you precise pen control with 512 levels of pressure sensitivity.

Navigate

Move around your desktop quickly and easily. Bamboo helps you select files, switch views, and open applications with a flick of the pen. Unleash new pen-specific features and capabilities that help you find your way when you combine Bamboo with Mac Inkwell or Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007.

Simplify

Bamboo is a more comfortable and natural way to work, giving you a supplement to keyboard input and helping reduce mouse-related stress on your hand and wrist. ExpressKeys provide shortcuts to your most commonly-used keystrokes, and the Touch Ring allows you to zoom and scroll with the touch of your finger.

Features

• Works with new handwriting recognition, inking and pen features in Windows Vista (all editions but Home Basic) and Apple operating systems (OS X)
• Supports widescreen displays and has a textured work surface for a natural pen-on-paper feel
• High resolution and report rate for outstanding accuracy
• Precise control with an active area of 21 square inches and 512 levels of pressure sensitivity on the pen
• Easy scrolling and zooming with finger-sensitive Touch Ring
• Patented, battery-free pen with customizable buttons for comfort and reliability
• Detachable USB cable unplugs from your computer and your tablet for easy storage and transport
• Includes one year warranty
• Free US-based technical support available