Bamboo is a new way of working. It will let you use all your usual applications as well as do things on your computer that have never before been possible. The pen makes it easy and intuitive, and your experience as natural as using an ordinary pen. The ergonomics help say goodbye to sore hands. Try it. You’ll be amazed at what Bamboo can do – and by what you can do with Bamboo.

The documents you create don’t have to be like all the rest. With Bamboo, it’s personal. You can add your own distinctive touches with handwritten notes, sketches, signatures and doodles. Bamboo sets you apart. Make it personal.

Unleash your creativity with Bamboo, at work and at home. Paint, draw, retouch and create, making your work uniquely your own. Free your imagination, discover what you can do...

Features

• Digital Inking: Add impact and your own personal touch to Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote documents. When used with Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007 applications provide a consistent set of dynamic linking options for pen users.

• Note Taking: Naturally enter and accumulate information in Microsoft Journal that can then be quickly located using the powerful search function. Tools included in Journal include pens, markers and highlighters plus a eraser.

• Signature: Personalize your emails with your own digital signature, or authenticate important documents in Adobe Acrobat. For fun or for business, Bamboo lets you make it personal. Sign your name to it.

• Handwriting Recognition: Connect Bamboo to a Windows Vista enabled PC to activate Vista's powerful handwriting recognition engine. Your Handwriting will automatically convert into text in any application that allows text input.

• Gestures: Windows Vista takes advantage of  the pen's inherent three-dimensional dexterity to allow users to control up to eight actions with simple pen gestures. Make it simple with Bamboo

• Navigation: Bamboo includes four customizable ExpressKeys for convenient access to your most widely used functions, and a Touch Ring for instant zooming, panning and scrolling.

• Drawing: Bring your creative ideas to life with sketches, illustrations and doodles. Everything you make will be more vivid, more exciting... more you. Create a difference with Bamboo

• Painting: Bamboo fun includes Corel Painter Essentials 3, a digital art studio for beginners and experts alike. Turn your photos into paintings, and take advantage of the dozens of custom brushes to unleash your creativity.

• Photo Retouching: Bamboo Fun and its bundled photo editing software combine to form today's digital photo editing suite. Instantly fix flaws, adjust colour and lighting, and add your own personal touches to your photos.

• Photo Composition: Add stylish frames and captions to your photos. Then combine them together to create digital photo albums that can easily be shared and displayed in your own web photo gallery. Image is everything.

Software Included

• Painter Essentials 3 (Win / Mac): Built on the award-winning power of Corel Painter IX, Corel Painter Essentials 3 is a complete home art studio for novices and experts alike. It includes everything you need to explore digital art, and to create stunning paintings from your photos

• Photo Impact (Win): Everything you need to edit, manage and share digital photos. Ulead's PhotoImpact 12 SE gives users the most innovative image editing tools for the PC. Edit, manage and share digital photos plus so much more. More digital photography tools, more filters and effects, more content and more learning resources. It's everything you need to produce professional results fast.

Specifications

• Product: Small Bamboo Fun Tablet

• Aspect ratio: 16 : 10

• Cable length: 1.5m

• Weight: Approx. 370g

• Size: 210 x 194.1 x 11.2mm including rubber feet

• Power consumption: Approx. 0.3W

• Co-ordinate res: 100 lpmm (2540 lpi)

• Accuracy - Pen: +/- 0.5mm

• Reading height - pen: Average 5mm

• Report rate: 133 points per sec.

• Pressure sensitivity: 512 levels pen & eraser

• Finger sensitive input: 1 touch ring

• Power requirements: DC 5V, 60mA or less - from USB port

• Communication interface: USB

• Express Keys: 4

System Requirements

• Operating System PC: Requires computer running Windows 2000, XP, or Vista incl. (64-bit editions)

• Operating System Mac: Macintosh running Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, IntelR or PowerPC Processor

• Other: Also requires colour display, powered USB port, and CD/DVD drive

Key Features

• Suits: Windows PC & Mac

• Weight: Approx. 370g

• Size: 210 x 194.1 x 11.2mm

• Warranty: 12 Month Limited