Wacom Releases Free Introductory Bamboo Paper Notes App For iPad, But There’s A Catch
Wacom’s new Bamboo Paper Notes App. lets you use your own natural handwriting to scribble, sketch, and doodle your thoughts in a digital paper notebook, and it’s offered for free initially.
Bamboo Paper turns your iPad into the ultimate paperless communications tool for use at:
• School you can map out math and science equations, compose music, create arts and crafts projects, learn proper penmanship, write non-Western language characters (eg: Chinese, Japanese and Arabic)
• Work Bamboo Paper lets you communicate with charts and graphs, share notes or drawings with colleagues or clients via e-mail or during a collaborative brainstorming session, and sketch designs while on the go. Connect an iPad to a projector and use Bamboo Paper as a visual presentation tool..
• Home users can use Bamboo Paper to jot down grocery lists, rough-out landscaping and home improvement designs, or entertain kids with coloring and drawing activities at home or in the car
Bamboo Paper features:
• Quickly scan your book by browsing through thumbnail images of your pages
• Share your ideas send an individual page or an entire book by email
• Present your thoughts to a group – connect your iPad to a projector to show off your sketches and ideas to others at meetings and brainstorm sessions
• Print an individual page or entire book
• Mark important notes by bookmarking individual pages
Bamboo Paper is designed for everyone and especially for creative people, and to be environmentally friendly to help minimize paper waste. The customizable Bamboo Paper app allows users to create notes and sketches that can be shared visually, easily stored and archived for use at a later date. It features different paper types (blank, lined or graph) and several pen thickness selections. Bamboo Paper takes advantage of Wacom’s experience and expertise in pen-based input by offering a natural and realistic writing and sketching application tool.
To find your notes, quickly scan your notebook by browsing through thumbnail images of your pages. You can even bookmark important pages and send an individual page or an entire book by e-mail.
Bamboo Paper will be available for free at the App Store until June 30th, 2011, which is cool, but the catch is that while it isn’t absolutely required, the Bamboo Paper app is intended to be used in conjunction with Wacom’s $29.95 Stylus to get the most out of it.
With Wacom’s first app for the iPad. Take notes, sketch ideas, or doodle. Perfect companion for the Bamboo Stylus, a premium digital pen for the iPad. Bamboo Stylus delivers a high-end look and natural weighted feel of a real pen, to give you capabilities for drawing, sketching and note taking on an iPad.
Simple but elegant, the Bamboo Stylus offers users a premium experience for notetaking, sketching, drawing, and other forms of creative expression. Backed by Wacom’s 25-plus years as a leading manufacturer of digital pen tablets and interactive pen displays, Bamboo Stylus is highlighted by its subtle design elements, a black and silver design with satin-textured metal body and balanced weighting.
The tip of the stylus is 25 percent narrower (6mm vs. 8mm) in diameter than some other popular solutions on the market. Combining ergonomic comfort and a firmer feel, the Bamboo Stylus offers a premium digital inking experience for handwriting notes, highlighting text, editing documents, drawing, sketching and much more.
Bamboo Stylus brings an accurate and precise way to take notes in meetings and classroom settings, or to sketch out rough ideas while on the go. For example, users can improve their input experience with numerous applications developed for iPad, such as Penultimate for note taking and Autodesk SketchBook Mobile for sketching needs.
System requirements:
Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.2 or later.
For more information, visit:
http://wacom.com/en/Products/BambooStylus/BambooStylus.aspx
And
http://wacom.com/en/Products/BambooStylus/BambooPaper.aspx
App Store:
http://bit.ly/j9lLpP