Bad Signs For Wacom’s Inkling?

Wacom Inkling

Wacom continues to attempt to promote it’s latest artist tech to people without any indication of whether or not it will actually successfully produce usable results. Now with the Inkling still shrouded in secrecy until release, that vague release date of mid-September just got pushed back another month.

For those waiting to get their hands on this thing you could look at it as a sign that Wacom needs to hold off to meet surprisingly strong demand, though they haven’t exactly been taking pre-orders, but the more cautious might take this as an indicator of some trouble producing the already suspect tech.

We’ll just have to wait and see if mid-October suddenly becomes mid-November.

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Does Wacom’s New Inkling Work Or Not?

Inkling Robot

Perhaps the more precise question would be “Does it work well?” Wacom’s latest drawing gadget isn’t the first to promise to give you the ability to create on your computer as well as you can on paper, the problem with every other device thus far is simply not delivering.

Yes you can get a decent approximation of your handwriting or a vaguely similar sketch from your hand to your desktop with some of these things, but if you want the real thing you have to go through your scanning process and/or just doing the whole thing with a stylus in your graphics program of choice.

Wacom Inkling

The Inkling is promising to give you the real deal sketch to digital (specifically vector) that certain artists have been longing for, unfortunately they simply aren’t letting anyone get their hands on it until it’s for sale and shipping from their store. You may have noticed articles pop up on all the tech blogs a few days ago about the Inkling, and if you did you should have also noticed they all read like press releases penned by a pitchman rather than a critical eye reviewing the Inkling tech itself.

I personally am very excited about the idea of using a device like this, as I like many others do my best work on paper, feeling completely disconnected from a drawing tablet, priced out of a Cintiq, and exhausted by the scanning process, but the reality, I worry, for Inkling on final review will be that that cute little robot sketch will show up on my computer with only one arm and his head between his legs.

Looking forward to some proper reviews of the Inkling, and getting my hands on one myself, assuming they have any stock for the “mid-September” launch of this relatively low priced ($200) digital inking device.

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Comic Con Preview Of New Beavis & Butthead Series

New Beavis and Butthead

MTV released this five minute preview for the upcoming rebirth of the Beavis & Butthead animated series, and it looks like not a whole lot has changed with Beavis & Butthead since their first outing.

One thing that is new in this preview is, in place of a music video, they’ve now got Jersey Shore to make fun of, which while taking them down the well worn path of The Soup, at least gives them something they can retain the rights to for a proper DVD/Blu-Ray release down the road.

For you new kids remember Butthead is the smart one.

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