Bamboo is the latest pen tablet PC from Wacom, made of matte plastic is widely used as the touchpad notebook. Smooth surface when our fingers touch the surface of the bamboo tablets. Wacom Bamboo actually does look like a large touchpad. Moreover, multi-touch, multi-gesture on the touchpad is now also combined in the bamboo. To zoom an image for example, can be done by removing the position of the thumb and forefinger. To rotate the image, do the twist with the thumb and forefinger. Clicking an icon? tap icon by doing it twice, just like in the notebook touchpad. Flipped a page to the front? Enough with the thumb and index finger sweep to the right.

Bamboo touch panel size smaller than a sheet of A4 paper, which is dominated by the touch sensitive area is about 19x13 cm (on Bamboo Touch). Touch the field is made of specially designed plastic that will not wear out by the pressure and touch again. The sensor is at the bottom, so it is not affected by pressure and if dirty, Bamboo can be wiped surfaces with a damp cloth. Users with long nails can not because the sensor is activated by the tips of your fingers. Bamboo provides ease in editing photos, editing video, painting / drawing, writing notes, to surf the Internet without touching the mouse.

Users can write handwritten notes as written on the paper in Microsoft Office, or in Windows Journal. Touch mode will be active as soon as your fingertips touch the tablets. But if the pen is touched to the tablet, the automatic will switch to pen mode. Bamboo work at cross-operating system, namely Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OS X. Linux users do not need to worry because the open source operating system is also supported with drivers made by supporters of open source is not from Wacom.

Bamboo consists of four series, three of them are small, about half a sheet of A4, with black color. One again, Bamboo Fun big size silver color. Bamboo Touch features without a pen, and have the same functionality with Bamboo Pen. Meanwhile equipped Bamboo software Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 / 7 and Ink Squared Deluxe is also available, while the Bamboo Fun with Ink Squared Deluxe software is replaced by Corel Painter Essentials 4. Wacom Bamboo addressed to consumer. This includes children, illustrator, and photographer.