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Blame the iPhone for bringing multi-touch to the popular consciousness.  Wacom just introduced its new line of tablets for PCs and Mac with mutli-touch.  Wacom products usually are pen-based and are meant for digital artists and designers. 

There are several small tablets.  The Bamboo Pen & Touch can still use a pen interface for quick notes and scribbling, but also acts as a multi-touch trackpad.  At $99, the price is quite reasonable for a tablet with multi-touch.  If you want just a pen interface, there is the Bamboo Pen.  If you just want a multi-touch trackpad, there is the Bamboo Touch.  Both of those devices will cost $69.  There is also the $129 Bamboo Craft, a silver variation of the black Pen & Touch.  The Craft comes with some extras for digital scrapbookers like a DVD with 26 scrapbooking lessons.  Most of the Bamboo line also comes with photo editing software, the exception is the Bamboo Touch.  These devices are all 9.8” x 6.9” in size.

There is also the larger Bamboo Fun.  At $199, the silver Fun is much larger at 8.8” x 13.3” and comes with three photo editing programs: Photoshop Elements 7 for Windows (6 for Mac), Corel Painter Essentials 4, and Nik Color EFex Pro 3.0 WE3 (corrects lighting). 

As a user of Wacom tablets, they are sturdy and work well.  Pens never require batteries so your work will not be interrupted due to a dead battery. 

More: [Wacom] via [Electronista]

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