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Designed for rough concepts and creative brainstorming, Inkling bridges the gap between paper sketching and digital drawing by giving users at the front end of the creative process a way to rough-out ideas with real ink on paper and capture their concepts digitally so that they can be later refined on their computer.

Wacom Inkling is a new digital sketch pen that captures a digital likeness of your work while you sketch with its ballpoint tip on any sketchbook or standard piece of paper.  Inkling even allows users to create layers in the digital file while sketching on paper in the following creative software applications: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Autodesk Sketchbook Pro.

The Inkling digital sketch pen is comprised of both hardware and software components. Hardware includes both the pen and a wireless receiver that captures a likeness of the sketch and stores it digitally. The ballpoint pen uses Wacom’s pressure sensing technology (1024 levels of sensitivity) to detect how hard the pen is being pressed to the paper while sketching. These pressure variations will appear in the digital version of your drawing. The Inkling is an interesting take on the familiar drawing tablet—simply because there’s no tablet. Instead, you clip the Inkling onto a piece of paper, draw with the pen (which lays down regular ink), and then watch as your sketches appear magically on the computer screen simultaneously, or see them later when you return to your computer and transfer entire drawings at once.

To get started, you need a PC running either a 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP SP3, or a Mac running OS X 10.4.0 or later. The Wacom Inkling package includes the digital pen and receiver, a charging case with a USB cable, a small printed manual, and four spare ink cartridges that stay inside the charging case. The thick-but-lightweight digital pen measures 6.1 by 0.7 by 0.6 inches (HWD) and weighs 0.7 ounces, while the small, plastic receiver measures 0.7 by 2.8 by 1.3 inches (HWD) and weighs 1.4 ounces. The design is pretty slick. The only assembly is making sure you insert the tiny round battery into the top of the pen cap. Aside from everything being self-contained, you can charge both the pen and the receiver simultaneously, just by connecting the small cable to any free USB port on your computer. Then, with the pen inserted into the charging case, you see two separate LEDs while charging the Inkling, one for the device and one for the pen. Both charge in less than three hours; the receiver contains a lithium-polymer battery, while the pen uses a replaceable nickel metal hydride cell.

     

Moleskine Classic Pocket Soft Cover Ruled Notebook (3.5 x 5.5)

The Moleskine Classic Pocket Soft Cover Ruled Journal has a soft, pliable cover that offers a flexible version of the traditional hard cover notebooks. The most reliable pocket-sized travel companions for your drafts, thoughts, sketches, notes … destined to become your analog laptop, your library, your home away from home.

Like the Moleskine Classic Hard Cover Journals, Moleskine Classic Soft Cover Notebooks have a sewn binding, acid-free paper, rounded edges, elastic closure, cloth ribbon placeholder, and a rear expandable inner pocket.

          

Mont Blanc Meisterstuck

In Germany a Meisterstuck is a kind of final-year project for a young craftsman, marking (if good enough) his or her transition from apprentice to master.  As such, it is an extravagane title for something as simple as a pen, yet the Mont Blanc Meisterstuck 149 has cleverly managed to fulfill the prophecy of its name to become not only Mont Blanc’s most successful product, but for more than eighty years now, a powerful global icon representing luxury, tradition, culture and power.  Each pen is individually crafted rather than mass-produced, and can be specially tailored to the user’s desires with various point sizes and ranges of flexibility in the nib.  The pen itself is 148 mm (5.8 in) long by 16 mm (0.63 in) in diameter – a sleek torpedo of polished black resin circled with bands of gold.  A white star on the tip of the cap represents the snow cap and the six glacial bvalleys of Mont Blanc.  The height of the mountain in meters, 4810, is inscribed amongst decorative swirls on the pen’s 18 carat hand-ground gold nib, each one hand-tested by individual craftsmen.  The name of the pen is also etched into the widest gold-plated band of the three iconic gold rings found on the cap.  People say the Meisterstuck 149 is the epitome of elegance, with its heavy shiny black resin barrel highlighted by the gold rings and clip.  Its fans talk of the warmth and individuality of the pen, the way its flexible nib, with platinum inlay, adapts to the owner’s writing style like a pair of leather shoes.  The company was founded in Hamburg, Germany, in 1906 under the much less evocative name, Simplo Filler Pen Company.  The name Mont Blanc was registered in 1911, although it was not until 1924 that the company bagan producing particular lines of pens and the Meisterstuck 149 was issued.  The pen has changed little over the years – a specially developed resin has replaced the original celluloid and ballpoint models and a highlighter pen has even been introduced, but functionally and aesthetically the design has endured, making it a true legend.