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New Tablets from Wacom

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Wacom has introduced two new tablets called Bamboo and Bamboo Fun. The new family of pen tablets are for the consumer and business audiences. These two distinct pen tablets provide a natural, personal, and creative digital input experience for home or office.

Bamboo Fun: Create your World
This tablet is Ideal for home digital photo enthusiasts or those who just want to create digital art using Corel Painter Essentials 3, Adobe Photoshop Elements, or other popular software, Bamboo Fun makes it easy to create illustrated photo montages, artwork for scrapbooks, craft projects, and slide shows. The tablet offers 512 Levels of sensitivity (as opposed to 1024 on the pro lines) and a resolution of 2,540 Lines Per Inch (as opposed to 5,080 lpi). The tablets sell for $99 and $199 and includes Photoshop Elements, Nik Color Efex Pro, and Painter Essentials.

Bamboo: Make your Mark
Personalizing documents with signatures, marking up business documents, and tapping into the pen input functionality of popular business or communications software, Bamboo delivers new input options and navigational controls in an elegant design for office or home use. This tablet doesn't come with any additional software, but is priced at only $79. The technical specs are the same... just a different "corporate" appearance.