Creative live.

I like the buttons on the sides, and they are easy to reset to whatever you would like them to be. I left most on the default settings, but I did change a few of them. Also it was very easy to calibrate the display. I am left-handed, and I had no problems adjusting the display for my hand preferences.

The picture quality seems very good. It has a stronger contrast than my 23" Acer monitor, (which either speaks highly of the Wacom or not so much so for the Acer.) Either way it makes for a very nice second monitor when I'm not using it for drawing.

Honestly, the only gripe I had about the Cintiq 22HD was the stand. I could not make it work with the desk that I had. This was in part because I am left-handed, and the desk I had at the time seemed to favor a right-hand setup. Even aside from that though, the 22HD is a MASSIVE beast and it took up too much desktop space for me to handle.

Amongst the million things i pack up for college, my art-book, the tablet and the kit of paints and colors just adds on. I feel like a wimpy kid with all my things falling left and right all over. It is quite a nuisance actually. Fine arts was suppose to be fun. But instead, I land up in utter chaos. Can you imagine the clutter with a mega huge art book, the pencils, erasers, the crayons, paints, sketch-pens and what not. The paraphernalia is never ending.

I have wanted a Cintiq for as long as they've been available. Dabbling with computer graphics, photoshop, and sketching, there is just something about the concept of drawing directly on the screen with pressure sensitivity that is extremely desirable.

The Cintiq 13HD sits neatly on your lap or on the desk at one of three heights using the detachable stand – I’d tell you which is the best position, but everyone who’s tried it here has a different opinion. It’s also excellent for transporting – it’s very easy to slip in a rucksack with a laptop and go about your business.

To make travelling with the Cintiq 13HD as painless as possible, Wacom has shipped it with a new pocket-sized pen-and-nibs case 

The Cintiq 13HD has a gorgeous screen, displaying 16.7m colours to ensure life-like colour quality. Plus, the wide-format HD LED display gives you a wide viewing angle of 178° and a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels that is particularly good for handling intricate graphics and illustration.

The controls on the left of the Cintiq are very intuitive. You can set the tools to perform various shortcuts, dependant on your working methods. The pro-pen is beautiful. With 2,048 levels of pressure and tilt sensitivity, it is perfect for me, It's so precise, and creates a very authentic line.

  Design

The Bamboo Stylus duo has a fantastic weight and feels great in your hand.  Unlike many other styluses which feel cheap, the Bamboo Stylus line has the appearance and build of a premium product.

The tip

The key advantage of this stylus is the tip. The Bamboo Stylus duo has a fantastic tip for taking notes on an iPad using an app such as Good Notes because it feels great on the iPad screen but it is smaller than the tips on most other styluses which provides the sensation of being more precise  I like the feel of the tip against the iPad screen and I've never felt that I had to apply excessive pressure

  The pen

The distinguishing feature of the Bamboo Stylus duo is the included pen.  Simply remove the cap and the pen is exposed.You can place the cap on the stylus end of the pen and I doubt that anyone else would be able to tell that you are even using a stylus.

  If you are going to include a pen in a stylus, this is a great way to do it.  My gripe with the pen is that I don't like the way that the ink looks.  I find the point to be too fine and I find the ink to be too light.  I almost feel like I am writing with a pencil.

Length

The duo is 131 mm when used as a stylus (about 5.16") which is much closer to the length of a normal pen (around 5.25)

Better wear and tear?

I see one other possible advantage of the duo over the regular version. with the duo, the entire top is removable and the clip is part of the top, the clip can rotate and over time will be in many different positions on the stylus.  Even if you always hold the duo the same way in your hand with the clip against your hand, you'll be applying pressure to different parts of the tip over time. 

Conclusion

This product was my first encounter with any tablet, so I bought it without actually knowing how to work with one. I read that it would take a few days until you get used to it, but it only took like half an hour. The touch feature makes it in to a gigantic track pad (touch feature can easily be turned off), which makes it very useful outside Photoshop as well. I actually don't use a mouse anymore. It is high quality, well built, very stable and highly customizable.

 I can map keyboard shortcuts to the touch-buttons, making every frequently used function easily available from the tablet itself. The precision of the pen is very good, making me able to do fiddly retouching quick and easy instead of slow and poor with a mouse.  The pen has a good grip, two buttons and an eraser at the top, and it works without any batteries. The tip is interchangeable for different feels against the tablet surface.

Why do people use Stylus? I think probably to make their work easier and also add an element of fun.

I bought my first stylus 3 years ago and have replaced and used multiple Stylus models and brands till date. I thought they were all decent, until I lay my hands on this Wacom Bamboo Mini Stylus.

The small size is just the thing I was looking for & I use the stylus for writing or editing my photos, for that I need a stylus with a smaller nib that gives me the details I need.

Upon first use I noticed a huge difference over all the other Stylus I’ve used in the past. The stylus has a nice glide to it and feels very authentic in its feel.  I've found that it is the right length and weight for drawing and visualizing ideas on both my iPad and Smartphone. In fact, that's one of the first things that surprised me when I took it out of the box-the weight and durability. The Bamboo Stylus mini is made to be mobile. It is smaller than other stylus and also it weighs less.

I will be honest and say that the Wacom Bamboo Pad is the cutest thing I have seen in my whole life… in a techie kind of way. And that is coming from someone who spend his entire formal education in IT and spent his free time drooling over new tech gadgets. But enough of me and lets move onto the very interesting Wacom Wireless Bamboo Pad that I have gotten my hands on.

With my Wireless Bamboo Pad, it means I can leave my laptop connected to the projector at one end of the room and yet still write, scribble or draw on the Bamboo Pad which is projected to the rest of the team. In fact with the wireless capability, there is just so much I can do with the Bamboo Pad and the best part is no messy wires.

So i've been exploring the net about the best stylus available for my smartphone. I want the best stylus for my phone, hence i narrowed it down to two products, Wacom Bamboo Stylus & Targus Stylus. here is my research for these two products.

Wacom Bamboo Stylus Duo

dimensions 15.6 x 7.2 x 2.6 cm, weight 59g, battery free.

 elegant, durable non scratch replaceable rubber tips, smooth pen to paper feel, slightly expensive

Targus 2 in 1 Stylus

dimensions 13.2 x 5.3 x 1.5 cm, weight 45g, battery free.

Amongst the million things i pack up for college, my art-book, the tablet and the kit of paints and colors just adds on. I feel like a wimpy kid with all my things falling left and right all over. It is quite a nuisance actually. Fine arts was suppose to be fun. But instead, I land up in utter chaos. Can you imagine the clutter with a mega huge art book, the pencils, erasers, the crayons, paints, sketch-pens and what not. The paraphernalia is never ending.

So, when today a new lecturer came in today with all his new tech freak ways, we unanimously had the expression of another project to go in vain. The thought lasted nothing more than exactly 2 minutes. He made our priceless art-books be put aside and open up the tablets. These are the tablets that we conventionally use to just carry around hopelessly. Alongside, he handed over a case of Bamboo Stylus each. And then declared the world to be our oyster. I opened the case, started with an application as simple as MS Paint and came up with wonders. I switched between colors, paints, brushes, pencils, thickness of brushes, anything everything under the sun with just a tap.

And this was just the beginning. Each of us owns a stylus now. The 'utter chaos' is now reduced to just the tablets and the stylus. From taking down notes in the class, to doing geometric sketches, to painting, is all through a stylus.

Kids familiarizing with wacom art.

The photo doodles available are exploited the most. Simple reason being its easy to doodle with your touch gestures than a mouse on a laptop. Be it travelling in a train, a local, a metro, a flight or even a bus, your handy tablet or phone will always let you scribble. Just to add on to this, the Bamboo stylus aimed at making your doodles fun and precise.

I must say, Bamboo stylus have revolutionized the way we even look at photo doodling. What was once 'just for fun' is now like a profession by itself. The Bamboo stylus has led to mobilizing the entire scenario of the photo doodles. Making things as easy as paper pencil, the stylus to your touch screen creates absolute magic.

Be it the finesse or the precision or the funky-ness, Bamboo stylus has risen to be the answer to it all. These tiny magic wands give you a good grip and let you draw, sketch, annotate and color in a matter of minutes. It adds an element of fun, bizarre and polish at the same time.

For what its worth, photo doodling is going viral, courtesy Bamboo styluses.

That pile of mess of papers there at the corner of your desk.. Constantly reminding you of the documentation pending, the note taking, the planned itinerary and the day's events schedules. All of this pile to be checked once on mail, forward the same, have it printed and then proof read all over again, and that's just the start. Once done, it works all the way around. Makes me hate work. Where everything is being digitized with a plethora of gadget and gizmos out there, none at all can come in handy to get rid of all this paper work.

This is more or less the scene of my typical day. WAS.

What changed, if you're wondering, the answer is my entire work system. I've switched from typing, reading, printing, scanning, signing; to typing, signing and sending out the documents. As easy as that. And the only thing that has made this possible is the Bamboo Pad. If it wouldn't have been for Bamboo Pad, i'd have never realized the amount of time i waste in a day. Not only has it reduced the complexity of my work-a-day but also made it fun. Who could've thought, a sleek touch-pad that even fits perfectly in with my laptop in the bag can be used for as much as note-taking, signing, giving presentations in board rooms and so much more. Even the stylus fitted perfectly into the touch-pad is of optimum use when doing signatures on documents or even altering them.

The pile of mess of papers is no more there.on documents or even altering them.

So, what I first thought maybe competition in the market, turned out to be much of a substitute really.

As the professional designers, architects, researchers, photographers etc chase gadget and gizmos making their life easier, freelancers, who are definitely more than the pros out there, prefer a version of the same grade but fitting their tiny pockets too. So, when Hanvon got launched in the country as the economical tablets, there was a gust of excitement that spilled through. The tablets that came in served the purpose of each a designer, a techie, a professional or even a kid. At least that's what the claim is.

Makes you want to dig in deeper. And experience spoke.

Their vision apparently is to enriching people with good taste. All rights reserved, 'creation leads future' stands committed for everything against it. For starters, I could relate every product available with another established in the market since about atleast 3 years. Be it a faceID or the reader or their ever so 'innovative' graphic tablets.

A question I implore you to ask is if the brand asserts to be everything that any other graphic tablet is and more, if it professes itself to be creative enough to have stepped over tablets like Wacom scuffling its way through since years, how and why is it that they beat them all in pricing. Wouldn't basic economics of the world dictate a product to be as expensive, if not more, as the material used. Implications are pretty clear.

Moving on from the price toll, even if the people of the far-east found a way around it, it’s keeping in mind their reputation of creating the evil twin. A multiple product company, indecisive of the poltergeists, it has nothing ground-breaking of its own. Beating around the bush without a probable R & D department, Hanvon is digging its own grave.

To become more stubborn, once you get up, close and personal with Hanvon tablets, you will see and realize the degree of stability of the quality. The tablets also have a mind of their own which is moody passably to work only when it feels the need to. The pen's nib will slip off the tablet surface incessantly and if you have the curious desire to test another nib to see if it responds, make sure you a tweezers or scissors or a nail-cutter handy. Why, how else are you to switch nibs? Neat, I must say. So, that's where all the saving takes place.

Seeing all this, it hardly came as a surprise that the parent country themselves have only about 10 percent of the market share. One would feel bad for the effort they put in, but if this is your pick of the hour, you are but in vain a lost cause.

Wacom is nothing if not innovative and revolutionizing the tech-world. To add another arrow in the quiver, Bamboo Pad was recently launched into the market. In such little time, the touch pad has hit an all time high.

This sleek matte finished touch-pad is said to 'remodel' and 'restyle' your laptops. Flexible in its ways, it is made to recognize every touch gesture as well as the stylus motioning across it. While a Mac needs a driver installation, for Windows user, its a simple plug and play device. Unlike its other heavier mates, Bamboo Pad is feather light and compatible with every possible software.

As a touch-pad, Bamboo Pad let's you point, click, scroll, zoom, browse or rotate. Its an ample device to set your otherwise non-touch user interface not seem like one. Hidden away in an compartment in the Bamboo Pad itself is the stylus. With the stylus, you have the freedom to write, doodle or annotate any document.

This touch-pad, the Bamboo Pad, not only quadruples your laptop's touchpad area but also makes your work culture a little more innovative and genial. Priced at just INR 3,175/-, it is a product worth your while.