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9
Where are we now?
The next generation –
professional pen tablet Intuos4 is here!
We developed a high performance multi-touch sensor for
coincidence detection of multiple fingers
Wacom unveiled the long anticipated Intuos4, a revolutionary new
professional pen tablet for the field of illustration, animation, web,
movie film and industrial design in March 2009. It was available
through most national electrical stores and our own online shops
from April.
The Intuos series provides indispensable functionality for high-
quality digital content production and has already received high
praise as a de-facto standard tool by professionals.
Intuos4, the highest performance professional pen tablet yet, was
developed as a design tool to offer increased precision, control and
productivity to the user. Based on analysis of the user’s work flow,
Intuos4 was designed using new User Centered product design
techniques incorporating universal design and ergonomics. It is
equipped with a newly developed IC (integrated circuit) and sensor,
which offers near-zero (one gram) starting pen pressure against the
tablet surface, as well as delivering 2,048 levels of pressure sensi-
tivity, doubling that of previous models. Intuos4 provides users with
a natural writing and drawing feel, just like traditional pencils and
paint brushes.
Wacom aims to sell 500,000 units worldwide within the first year
from when the product was launched.
Wacom developed the original high performance multi-touch
sensor system which offers users the means to navigate and
control input on a computer display with multiple fingers.
Wacom applied cultivated high precision sensor technology with
pen tablet technology for the detection of multiple fingers, and
adopted the original technology for the IC controller of the touch
sensor. Wacom’s multi-touch sensor system realizes high speed
and high precision position sensing of unlimited numbers of finger
touch as well as featuring incredible stability, even when installed
in notebook PCs of which power consumption is limited in battery
mode.Windows 7, Microsoft’s next generation OS, newly supports
touch input solutions as a standard function. Wacom offers the
promising multi-touch sensor system to the market for notebooks
and desktop PCs as well as larger LCDs and aims at further
expansion of its component product sales.