This comes from Brit Morin’s (formerly Brittany Bohnet’s) most excellent blog (thank you, Brit!)…
It’s funny that I ran across this Inkling digital sketch pen today. Yesterday, I holed myself up in a coffee shop sketching out logos and designs for my New Company That Shall Remain Nameless™ and kept thinking about how useful something like this would be. It’s as if the universe (AKA the Internet) answered my prayers.
From their website:
Inking bridges the gap between traditional, freehand sketching and digital development by capturing a digital likeness of a pen-on-paper sketch.
Granted, there are devices that do similar things (ex: the Livescribe pen, various drawing tablets, etc), yet they all come without much portability and many force you to use “special paper” to capture your work. The Inkling is different in that it comes with a receiver that hooks onto any paper or notebook and stores your drawings (it can even store layers!) that transfer seamlessly to Photoshop and Illustrator via USB.
There are many use cases for this type of gadget: not just web and logo mocks, but home decorating layouts, digital doodling (some doodles can be true masterpieces!), digital caricatures, a fun way to capture and edit your child’s drawings, etc. I’m personally planning to take some cake decorating courses soon and want to sketch out my ideas before taking frosting to cake.
The product goes on sale next month for $199. However, the worst part is that the Wacom site doesn’t have a “Remind me when this goes on sale” button for the pen. Don’t worry, I’ve already tweeted at them about it and will post again here once the product goes on sale.
