Wacom Bamboo Pen Tablet
The advanced ergonomic technology that has helped graphic artists, architects, and illustrators is now available to everyone. Pen tablets encourage a more natural, healthy position compared to a mouse.
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. Alternating among input devices such as a mouse, a keyboard, and a pen is an effective way to reduce strain on delicate muscles, tendons, and nerves.
If you compare the neutral position we just discussed to the position you are in while using the pen tablet they are almost exactly the same. The forearm is only very slightly rotated. The carpal tunnel is no longer compressed on the desk, the wrist is relatively straight, and the fingers and thumb are in a gently flexed position. And when you use the pen you go through less extreme wrist motion.
When most people use a mouse nearly 100% of the movement occurs at the wrist. The pen tablet encourages motion in the hand, wrist, elbow, and shoulder. The more muscle groups you use the less likely you are to overuse any one group in particular.
Minimize clicking with programmable Express keys to browse the web, open apps, etc.
Less stressful scrolling (scrolling with the mouse creates risks for tendonitis).
Less neck strain with Zoom feature. No more leaning forward to see.
Less extreme wrist motion than using a mouse.
Combine Bamboo with Mac Inkwell or Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007 to handwrite email, enter text by hand anywhere typed text is accepted, navigate your desktop with a flick of the pen, and more.
Bamboo works with any software. In fact, many software applications have special features and tools that are designed to be used with a pen.
Jot notes by hand.
Mark up documents.
Sign your name.
Make sketches and doodles.
Handwrite email.
- 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
- Precise control and 512 levels of pressure sensitivity on the pen
- Ergonomic design provides a comfortable supplement to mouse and keyboard input
| Tablet Size | 7.88" W x 7.36" D x 0.3" H |
| Active Area | 5.8" W x 3.7" D (21 square inches) |
| Pressure Sensitivity | 512 Levels |
| Resolution | 2,540 lines per inch |
| ExpressKeys | 4 |
| Finger Sensitive Input | Touch Ring |
| Color Options | Black Only |
