[Rob McLay]

Here's a pretty cool computer from Sony that let's you draw directly on the screen.
Or how about this from Wacom. (Oddly enough it's about as much as the Sony computer.)
Just wondering if anyone uses either of them...

[aquamire]

I've never owned or used either of those, but from what I've heard and read, they dont have a very good resolution, and the pen lags. Not to mention they're god awful expensive.

[Sempere]

They�re more than god awful expensive!!!

[TekK]

i saw the wacom one at their website when i was initially looking to get myself a tablet, and it just looked too cool... however, the wacom ones only have 256 levels of pressure sensitivity (and remember that the graphire has 512, and the intuos 1024)... not to mention the 15-inch one costs frigging $4000... X-O

i didn't know about the vaio, though... it doesn't say much about the actual performance specs, but i thought the vaio looked very very appealing... and it's not that expensive, guys... $2500 for a 1GHz pen-screen system? hell, my K6-3 380MHz laptop cost me more than that (okay, that was a year and a half ago, but still... :P)

i thought the developer diary thing for the vaio was a pretty good read... :P

cheers,
teck

[ewiser]

Wacom makes the LCD tablet for sony.

[Etict]

Maybe in the future digital artists will use this paper-like material which will be used for digital newspapers too. You could like have all the photoshop-stuff on the "paper" and there wouldn't be any wrinkles. You would have your Wacom-pen and you could roll your "paper" to your bag. Would weight 50 grams max.
That would be pretty cool me thinks...

So it would be like drawing traditionally except that you would have all the tools you have in photoshop or any other program. Maybe the base of the paper could be "hardened" so that it would be a good drawing base.

Just crazy visions...

[delo]

digital paper actually exists, in black and white anyway. imagine two thin polymer sheets stuffed with an even dispersion of tiny clear beads. inside each bead is a sphere divided into a black hemisphere and a white one. a static charge between the sheets tells each bead whether it is white or black side up. . . and you have text, graphics, and animation! the first mention i've seen of digital paper was about six months ago in wired magazine. . . it's supposed to roll out for public consumption in 2002-3. better living through technology, hooray!
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[Spiritwolf]

Personally, I like not having my hand get in the way of the image while working, so even if the LCD tablets go up in pressure sensitivity, and go down considerably in price, I probably wouldn't be very interested. Really the whole idea is gimmicky right now, and I would consider them targeted at the people who have way to much money to spend

-Spiritwolf