Pen Tablet that inputs letters and drawings to PC instead of a mouse and keyboard is fast gaining popularity from not only professional workers like a medical doctor or designer but common PC users. It became an essential tool for office workers as they can easily make drawings or images difficult to express with a keyboard and mouse and connect them to the projector in the meeting. Young ages who want to differently decorate their blog and mini homepy a lot use it for drawing a message bubble and adding a special image.
Moreover, Window Vista to be released in February next year has SW to support pen input and can recognize letters and drawings with pen through Window Journal and store them as a file. The industry is expecting that the pen tablet market of current 100 thousand units is getting on the rising track.
Seo, Suk-kun vice-CEO in Wacom of Japan supplying pen tablet to PC makers and general consumers said, "Pen tablet will open a new market to increase the productivity of PC and to express fertile emotion." "We will expand experience marketing and develop Vista-only product with a hot key, keeping pace with Window Vista."