Wacom's new product the "Inkling" does not need special paper or ink to take track of your sketching/writing, it uses a little box and a pen containing a standard 1mm ballpoint reservoir that communicates via infra-red and ultrasonic transmission data.
The Inkling accepts any paper in sizes from A7 to A4 and gives you also 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity. One other great feature is the capability of creating layers on the fly. Imagine designing a car, while sketching you can create a new virtual layer for wheels, body and what not...
We do a lot of sketching to keep ideas and concepts, then we decide to throw stuff out or develop further on specific drawings. The Inkling gives us the possibility to store our work, review it in the Inkling management software then output it as raster or vector data to work on it in Photoshop/Illustrator/Autodesk Sketchbook...there you can use the vector data to refine your work. You even can play back your sketch in a timeline and select a new starting point of your sketch, Wow!
For a price of around 160 Euros it's a no brainer. Inkling will be released mid September.
Key features
- Enhance your professional workflow by capturing digital data while sketching with a ball-pen on normal paper
- The ink sketch can be structured in layers while drawing – no need to recreate layers in software
- 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity for natural pen strokes
- Store hundreds of high resolution sketches on the receiver before transferring to your PC or Mac
- Save time and export your sketches with layers directly into Adobe® Photoshop® or Illustrator® (CS3 or higher), or Autodesk® SketchBook® Pro or SketchBook® Designer (2011 or higher) as vector graphics
- Be versatile by saving your sketches in the following formats: JPG, BMP, TIFF, PNG, SVG and PDF
The Inkling Flash book overview
The Inkling Product Page
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