Bamboo, Wacom Style and Technology Human Balance

Bamboo name. This is the latest pen tablet PC from Wacom. He is not made of bamboo, but from such a matte plastic that is widely used in the touchpad notebook / netbook. Smooth surface when our fingers on the surface diusapkan this one tablet.

Well, actually Wacom Bamboo is like a large touchpad. Moreover, multi-touch, multi-gesture on the touchpad is now being raised.

To zoom an image for example, can be done by removing the position of the thumb and forefinger. To rotate the image, do the twist with the thumb and forefinger. Clicking an icon? Live tap (knock) icon it twice, just like in the notebook touchpad. Flipped a page to the front? Enough with the thumb and forefinger swept toward the right.

"There are nine gesture that can be done here," said KC Leong (Sales & Business Development Manager, SEA & South Asia, Wacom Singapore Pte Ltd) when the product launched four types of Wacom Bamboo - Bamboo, Bamboo Fun, Touch Bamboo and Bamboo Pen - in Jakarta.

Size 'panel' Bamboo touch smaller than a sheet of A4 paper, which is dominated by the touch sensitive area is about 19x13 cm (on Bamboo Touch). Touch the field is made of plastic that is protected so it will not wear out by the pressure and touch again.

"The sensor is at the bottom, so it is not affected by pressure," said Toshinori Nagasawa (Managing Director, Asian & South Asia, Wacom Singapore Pte Ltd). "If dirty, Bamboo can be wiped surfaces with a damp cloth," Leong added. "Only users with long nails can not because the sensor is activated by the tips of your fingers," he explained.

With Bamboo, we also made easier in editing photos, editing video, painting / drawing, writing notes, to surf the Internet without touching the mouse. Users can write handwritten notes as written on the paper in Microsoft Office, or in Windows Journal, once said Nagasawa. Touch mode will be active as soon as your fingertips touch the tablets. But if the pen is touched to the tablet, the automatic mode will switch to pen mode.

Bamboo work at cross-operating system, namely Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OS X. Linux users do not need to worry because the open source operating system is also supported. "But her driver was made by supporters of open source, not from Wacom," press Leong.

As mentioned above, Bamboo consists of four series. Three of them are small, about half a sheet of A4, with black color. One again, Bamboo Fun big size silver color.

Bamboo Touch the touch features but without the pen sold for the estimated U.S. $ 80, the same as Bamboo Pen with a pen. With her second price series, said Nagasawa, because the market still exploring Wacom pen tablet PC with touch features. "This feature is not really special touch, the important thing is to integrate with the software," he said.

Meanwhile equipped Bamboo software Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 / 7 and the ink is released on Deluxe Squared estimated price of U.S. $ 115. While the software Bamboo Fun Squared Deluxe Ink was replaced by Corel Painter Essentials 4 is estimated sold at U.S. $ 200.

Unlike the previous version (Intuos) is targeted to professionals, Wacom Bamboo addressed to the consumer. This includes children, illustrator, and photographer. That's why this product is targeted 4 million units sold in one year.