Bamboo Stylus for iPad (CS100K)

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.7 x 0.4 x 0.4 inches ; 0.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B004VM0SE6
• Item model number: CS100K
  

By : Wacom
List Price : $29.99
Price : $24.94
You Save : $5.05 (17%)

Product Description

Color: BLACK
From the Manufacturer
The Wacom Bamboo Stylus allows you to draw, sketch, take notes, and express yourself creatively on your iPad. With its firm, balanced feel, Bamboo Stylus offers a more comfortable way to take notes in meetings and classroom settings or to sketch out ideas on the go. A slim tip offers exceptional precision for drawing or navigating your touchscreen, and the tip's special coating ensures a pen-like feel on your tablet's touchscreen. Wacom even offers a free download, the Bamboo Paper App, which works like a virtual notebook on your iPad or home computer.

• Draw, create, write, and navigate on your iPad
• Slim tip for pen-like feel and enhanced drawing precision
• Weight-balanced design for a comfortable, natural feel
• Ideal for use with numerous iPad apps, including Bamboo Paper
• Compatible with mobile tablets
• One-year warranty

Elegant Design, Natural Feel
The Bamboo Stylus combines comfort and elegance with its sophisticated design, satin-textured metal body, and balanced weighting. Featuring a small stylus tip (6 millimeters in diameter), the stylus provides a precise digital inking experience. A special coating on the rubber stylus tip gives it a natural, pen-like feel.
The Bamboo Stylus weighs 20 grams, is 120 millimeters in length, and features a 9-millimeter pen barrel.
Ideal for Artists and Note Takers
The Bamboo Stylus makes the iPad even more versatile by making it possible to take handwritten notes, highlight text, edit documents, and sketch out ideas. It can be used effectively with a number of apps developed for the iPad, including Bamboo Paper, which allows you to write notes digitally as you would on paper, and GoodReader, which allows you to add comments or sign your name to PDF documents, and many others.
For visual artists and doodlers, the stylus works well with Autodesk's SketchBook Express, a drawing and sketching app; Adobe Ideas, which enables you to add your own embellishments to an image; Doodle Buddy, a simple doodle pad; and ArtRage, a fun painting experience on iPad.
Bamboo Paper App Functions as a Digital Notebook
An excellent companion to the Bamboo Stylus, the Bamboo Paper App is available for free download via the Wacom App Store and iTunes. Featuring a number of different paper types (blank, lined, or graph), several pen thickness selections and ink color options, Bamboo Paper offers the ease of your own natural handwriting as you smoothly sketch your thoughts and ideas on digital paper. With a touch of the stylus, you can create your own notebooks, manage your digital note library, and sketch ideas that can be archived for future use.
With a user interface that is fun and easy to use, Bamboo Paper lets you flip through your notes and browse thumbnail images of your pages. You can even bookmark important pages and send an individual page or an entire book by email.
Compatibility and Warranty Information
The Wacom Bamboo Stylus is compatible with the iPads and most mobile tablet devices.
The stylus is backed by a one-year warranty.
What's in the Box
Bamboo Stylus.
The Bamboo Stylus, from the leader in digital pen technology, is a brushed aluminum stylus for use with an iPad. The Bamboo Stylus is elegantly designed featuring a premium look and feel. A well balanced pen with smooth pen-to-paper feel, the Bamboo Stylus is durable with optimal weight and balance for comfortable use.

 

Bamboo Stylus for iPad (CS100K)

 

Technical Details

• Elegant, high end design
• Milled brushed aluminum
• Unique smooth pen to paper feel
• 25% smaller tip vs. competitor models
• Ergonomic design with optimal in-hand weight and balance
• Durable non-scratch rubber tip
• From the leaders in digital pen technology
• Replaceable rubber tips

Customer Reviews

The Wacom Bamboo stylus for iPad works rather well. In my experience it draws respectably and feels good in the hand. The Bambou has a soft rubber tip that reacts serviceabily on the iPad screen. A rubber tip stylus works much better than a sponge tipped stylus, like the Pogo. However, Boxwave, Acase, and Targus all make very good rubber tip styli that work nicely , perhaps even better than the Bamboo stylus, and on Amazon they cost anywhere from half to one third the price.
Unfortunately I see no real advantage to the Bambou stylist. The tip isn't smaller then any of the aforementioned styli and if the tip wears out you can't replace it. It's true the Bambou is a bit heftier than the other styluses, but in use, a heavier stylist tends to tire your hand out more and after several hours of drawing or typing this can be most tiresome.
Wacom is a very well-respected name in the tablet industry. They make excellent products. This is a good product at an outrageous price. If Wacom would work to redesign this stylus with a smaller, replaceable and more responsive tip it might justify the price. For the time being, until the price comes down in half, I would recommend going after one of several less expensive and as good alternatives. There's just no advantage to this stylus.

You have a lot of choices when it comes to capacitive stylii - but the Wacom brand carries a lot of weight and loyalty, and that has turned this johnny-come-lately stylus into the de-facto choice for many iPad owners and artists.
That's fine, the Bamboo is a great stylus. It works well and feels substantive, solid, and well made. I have only one problem with it - the PenGo Touchpen iPad Stylus is half the price and is virtually identical to the Bamboo in every way. Both have a smallish rubber-bubble tip, are about the same size, length, and style, and both feel and behave exactly the same way in every iPad app I've used (Penultimate, uPad, Sketchbook Pro, Inspire Pro, etc). Also, both have the same "squishy" character when writing or drawing. Still, as far as squishyness is concerned, both the Pengo and Bamboo stylii feel much better than their competitors thanks to their smaller tips.
I will say this - the Bamboo's construction feels more substantive than the Pengo's does, and it LOOKS more professional. For some, that's a critical point, especially when cost is no object. For instance, the Bamboo feels more "solid" where the Pengo feels light and empty. But does that make the Bamboo worth twice the Pengo stylus? Personally, I think not... besides, some may prefer the lighter hand-feel of the Pengo. Ultimately, it's a matter of taste and cost.
You certainly won't be disappointed with the Bamboo - but if you want the same great writing experience at half the cost, you should seriously consider the PenGo Touchpen iPad Stylus too.

 

Bamboo Stylus for iPad (CS100K)