Bamboo Second Generation products:

Wacom's Bamboo Second Generation is the first interactive tablet which combines multi-touch and pen input in one device.

The Bamboo family includes four products: Bamboo Touch, Bamboo fun, Bamboo Pen and Touch and Bamboo Pen .

The Bamboo is ideal for any computer user as it allows to communicate , share and create content. It gives anyone the oppertunity to be creative as it is the perfect tool for self -expression and personalization when producing everyday documents, presentations and blogs , or when communicating with friends, colleages and family through social networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter.

Bamboo second generation is ultra-slim and optimized for right and left handed use.

 

Wacom Bamboo Second Generation

Wacom have just launched the Bamboo's second generation tablets which are certainly a great improvement .

It is a new, inspiring technology that could change your digital life completely. By combining multi-touch functionality and pen tablet technology in a single device, the Bamboo tablets provide a new, spontaneous and immediate way of using a computer.

Give your Rugged Hard Drive a Sleek Look

Protect your LaCie Rugged Hard Drive in style with these colorful sleeves. Easily changeable yet durable once on, they are made of the same quality rubber as the original Rugged sleeve. This set of three additional bumpers comes in green-grey, blue-grey, and black.

Lacie rugged HD multimedia player

After Lacie’s big success with the rugged hard drive , they have introduced the new Rugged HD series is designed for transferring HD media .

The drive allows users to store and play high definition content on any HDTV with support for full HD 1080p resolutions. The new drive comes in 250GB, 320GB and 500GB. With its 500GB of built-in storage capacity, LaCinema Rugged HD can store up to 700 movies or 165000 songs which is quite a lot of multimedia storage.

It is ideal to store our favourite music, TV shows, movies and other multimedia files on a portable storage solution.

The LaCinema Rugged HD supports H.264, MKV, WMV9 and MPEG-4 video formats, and comes in a case modeled after LaCie’s Rugged Hard Disk, designed by Neil Poulton. With USB interface .Black in color, it features a scratch-resistant aluminum shell, internal shock absorbers and shock-resistant rubber bumper. A remote control is also included .

Lacie Rugged Hard Drive gets bigger and better

The Best portable hard drive of the year .

The Lacie Rugged All-Terain hard drive is certainly the winner . It comes in capacities of 250GB, 320GB and 500GB in either a USB interface or firewire 800/400 and USB interface.

Lacie now manufacture the rugged hard drive up to 500GB of storage and up 7200 RPM.

The LaCie Rugged All-Terrain external hard drive is housed in a very hot-looking, eye-catching, bright-orange rubber bumper that protects the device from shocks. Apart from the colorful bumper and the scratch-protected aluminum shell, the drive boasts a no-frills, straight-to-the-point design.

LaCie states the maximum drop height to be 35 inches while in non-operating mode.

The drive comes pre-formatted for the Mac and ready to use. Just connect the drive to your Mac using either the USB 2.0, FireWire 400, or FireWire 800 ports. For laptops with limited power supplies, an additional cable is included for drawing bus power from an available USB port on the computer.

The drive also ships with LaCie’s backup and installer software.

You can also add Rugged Sleeves: Easily changeable yet durable once on, they are made of the same quality rubber as the original Rugged sleeve. This set of three additional bumpers comes in green-grey, blue-grey, and black.

Choosing a Wacom Tablet : Bamboo vs Intuos

You would like a graphic tablet but find it hard to decide which one .

In order to help you pick the right one for you, I suggest you read our guide-lines

• For the less experienced users:

We would recommend The Bamboo line and the wireless Pen Tablet .

It is mainly aimed at the home users looking to do some creative work . By using a tablet , you can get the degree of control which you would like , you get the feeling of drawing on paper as it gives you a kind of a natural feeling as if you “are doing the real thing”.

Bamboo tablets are great for creative activities, from sketching to scrapbooking to photo retouching. They also offer a unique opportunity to integrate handwriting with digitized documents.

• For the Experienced users :
  

Intuos 4 is ideal for students and for the more experienced users such as photographers, web-designers and artists.

The Intuous 4 is a graphic tablet which comes in four sizes: small, medium, large and extra large.

It allows you to maximize productivity, comfort, usability and control for every task.

• 2048 pressure levels - The pen now reacts to just a single gram of pressure.


• Touch ring and express keys : The Express keys are now sensibly grouped to one side .There are some new keys such as radial menu, info and Precision mode


• Can be used by both left and right handed users.


• The design effectively reduces physical stress and strain while the user is creating, designing, painting or editing with high-end software.


• Stylish design.


• No batteries to change. Pen and mouse are cordless and battery-free.


• Comes with a variety of nibs.

Wacom Bamboo Fun

 

Wacom the world’s leading graphic’s tablet  has designed the Bamboo tablets , which is a  range of affordable pen tablets aimed at more casual users who can’t justify the relatively high price of the Intous4 range .

The Bamboo is available in two versions : Bamboo and Bamboo Fun. Both  tablets are aimed at the consumers  .   Bamboo is designed primarily for office tasks rather than artistic work.

For digital photography, the Bamboo Fun is the better choice. The primary difference between the Bamboo and Bamboo Fun is the inclusion of a mouse on the latter, and more importantly, the addition of an eraser on the pen, making it easy to correct adjustments on the fly. The Bamboo Fun is also available in two sizes, with a 4x6 and 6x8 version. The standard Bamboo is available in 4x6 only.

With a stylish, white design, Bamboo Fun comes with Adobe Photoshop Elements 6, as well as ArtRage 2.0, making it a versatile input device ideal for consumers keen to develop their creative skills. Users can easily produce more natural and authentic-looking paintings, sketches and drawings, as well as retouch, improve, manage and share digital photographs. The four programmable ExpressKeys on the tablet itself make it quick and easy to use different shortcuts. Bamboo’s Touch Ring is ideal to zoom in and out or scroll through documents.

 

Bamboo Fun  features:



Re-touch

Bamboo Fun brings out the best in photographs. You can create your own photo scrapbook, turn photographs into paintings, add captions, colours and clarity. The possibilities are endless and the pen makes it easy.



Draw

You can make creative drawings, sketches, illustrations and doodles.

Paint

Bamboo Fun is the intelligent paintbrush. It can turn your c ideas into art and helps develop your own creativity.



Simplify

Bamboo Fun is simply a joy to use. Technology should make life easier and more fun and Bamboo Fun is a natural way to expressing creativity and to making life more colourful.

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Intuos 4

The Intuous 4 is a graphic tablet which comes in four sizes: small, medium, large and extra large.

It is designed for both professionals and serious home users and allows maximization of productivity, comfort, usability and control for every task.

The tablet is a pointing device, and works like the mouse. It comes with an electronic pen that operates on top of the tablet. With this tablet you can create illustrations, web graphics and banners in addition to editing digital photos, create animations and even use all the office applications. The tablet can actually replace the mouse.

Graphic tablets are a popular option for digital image editing and other graphics where a mouse does not give you the degree of control that you would like or need.

Wacom has once again re-invented the wheel with the new version of intuos 4.The new Wacom premium tablet is an appealing mix of hardware and software refinements. With a Sleek design , the tablet itself went through a major makeover. Its smart reversible design is for both right and left handed.In order to apply with the wider HD format , with active areas of 16:10 aspect ratio intended to match the screen of modern cinema displays.

The Express keys are now sensibly grouped to one side .There are some new keys such as radial menu, info and Precision mode.Pressure Sensitivity: Is the reason people buy a tablet . The pen now reacts to just a single gram of pressure It now has 2048 levels of pressure in comparison to 1024 in Intuos 3.Illuminated Display:With the new Led’s you can see exactly what’s programmed.The display updates instantly when you change applications.Scroll Ring: lets you speed dial through zoom levels and brush sizes.The touch Ring can be programmed to zoom and scroll, change your brush size in photo shop, or as a scrubber wheel if you edit video.No more touch strips .The Grip pen has also been redesigned . A rubberlike finish along the bottom half of the pen helps you keep a firm grip.It has been updated with new Tip sensor technology which enables you smoother, more precise strokes. It is ergonomic and comfortable.

Verdict:Put your old Intuos 3 on ebay or pass it on and buy an Intuos 4.It feels like a pencil on paper and certainly is not as slippery as the intuos 3 ).New users and experienced users will both fall in love with the product.

High Street Prices:

Intuos 4 Small:

Micro-Anvika £199.95 PC world £199.99

Erange - £192.00 :Erange (Educational Price): £169.05:

Intuos 4 Medium:

Micro Anvika 329.95 PC World £329.99

Erange :£320.00 Erange (Educational Price) £267.95

Intuos 4 Large:

Micro Anvika £429.99 PC World £429.99

Erange: £409

Erange(Educational Price) £345.00