1. GRAPHICS TABLET

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8.  An acoustic tablet (Spark tablet)
 Uses sound to locate the position of the
stylus
 Position is calculated with the timing of the
sound
 1964: Rand Tablet (Grafacon) by ARPA
 Looks like the current graphic tablet
 For professionals and medical environment
 Covering electromagnetic

10.  1984: KoalaPad
 The first public tablet
 Koala Painter

11.  Optical tablets:
 Very small digital camera in the stylus
 Passive tablets:
 Horizontal and vertical wires of the tablet
 Both transmitting and receiving coils
 Active tablets:
 Stylus, self-powered electronics
 Transmission to the tablet
 LCD tablets

12. Wacom
Bamboo
Wacom
Cintiq

15. To capture
data or
To hand-draw handwritten
images and
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16.  Photoshop  Gimp
 Illustrator  InDesign
 Corel Painter  Blender
 After Effect  Flash

17. ©Rod

18. ©Maskqueraide

19. ©Mary and Anne-Claire

21.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_tablet (last modified on 7
June 2010)
 http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102710343
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXbBA1DRE84&feature=player_
embedded#!
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KoalaPad
 http://www.wacom.eu/global.asp?pid=0&spid=0&lang=en
 http://www.gralon.net/articles/materiel-et-consommables/materiel-
informatique-et-consommable-informatique/article-tablette-
graphique-485.htm
 http://mikegroe.com/
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_tablet
 http://browse.deviantart.com/photography/abstract/?q=photo#/d35
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 http://xena111returns.deviantart.com/art/Broken-and-Beautiful-