Wacom Stylus for iPad Is Not What You?re Hoping For

Wacom's Bamboo Stylus is yet another rubber-tipped iPad pen

Wacom, the maker of graphics tablets for Macs and PCs, will now sell you a stylus for your iPad. When I read this news, I got pretty excited: It?s from Wacom, so it must be pressure sensitive, right? Maybe it measures how hard you press and sends that info via Bluetooth to a custom app?

Sadly, the answers are no and no. The Bamboo Stylus (named for Wacom?s Bamboo tablets) is little more than a regular metal tube with a rubber tip. The tip is thinner than is found on many other styluses, and the design is in the familiar ?fuglitarian? (fugly utilitarian) style that Wacom has made its own, but this is still just a dumb pen.

Normally I?d recommend Wacom every time. The company makes the best tablets I have used (although the driver software is so bad that it would be a joke even on Linux). But making yet another iPad stylus seems pointless, unless they are made to be given away as schwag at tradeshows. And perhaps they are ? as of this writing, there is still no price associated with the Bamboo Stylus (not to be confused with the Bamboo Pen, sold as a replacement part for the tablet).

Bamboo Stylus product page [Wacom]

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Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/wacom-stylus-for-ipad-is-not-what-youre-hoping-for/

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