2007

Wacom Input Technology to be Exhibited at FPD International 2007 held at Pacifico Yokohama, Japan fr

Dates: October 24 (Wed) - 26 (Fri) 10:00-17:00
Venue: Pacifico Yokohama, Japan
Organized by: Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.
Co-organazed by: Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) Booth # 780 (Side of Technical Session Plaza A)

With unique pen technology, Wacom provides natural and direct user interface solutions. Wacom's original EMR (Electro-Magnetic Resonance) method known as Wacom Penabled Technology brings you pen expression on computer screens just like on paper in addition to improving usability like choosing icons and scrolling.

EMR sensor is placed behind the display which realizes high durability while maintaining display's clear image and brightness. With these advantages, EMR component is being accepted in tablet PCs, mobile applications, and devices used in severe environment. In FPD show, visit our booth to try our new demo machines with EMR+touch for both pen and finger input capability. Also shown are samples of small to desk top monitor size sensor and pen varieties.

Contact

For Wacom booth inquiries
For FPD International 2007 inquiry please visit the official website.

We look forward to your visit.

Wacom’s Latest Sensor System Comes to Life on the Latest HP Compaq 2710p Notebook PC, the functional

Wacom's latest sensor system, the Penabled “G5” technology is deployed on HP's Compaq 2710p Notebook PC, which is now available in Japan. The “2710p” Notebook PC is a mobile-note PC with Tablet PC functionality. “2710p” is designed to be lighter and smaller than the previous model of the same category. It weighs 390g (1.69kg) less and is 6mm thinner (28.2mm thinnest part). Wacom's “G5” technology, designed for tablet PCs, is capable of 50% more EMR sensor signal output as compared to its predecessors. The lightness and thinness of the “2710p” is attributed to the “G5” being thinner and lighter by 50%.

For more information about “2710p Noteboo PC”, please visit: http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF25a/321957-321957-64295-321838-306995-3355644.html

About Wacom Penabled Technology

Wacom Penabled Technology is named for EMR (Electro-Magnetic Resonance) sensor technology built into tablet PCs and patented digital pen technologies, enabling users to use a single digital pen on a wide array of information devices that support Wacom Penabled technology. With a strong focus on providing “Wacom Penabled Technology” to support a widespread use of the natural and intuitive writing environment with “digital pen & paper,” we establish our position as the global leader in the market to provide enabling technologies for a variety of information devices.

About Wacom

Founded in 1983, Wacom is the world's leading manufacturer of pen tablets and interactive pen displays with customers worldwide using its cordless, battery-free, pressure-sensitive pen technology for digital content creation. Wacom's patented digital pen technology is also offered as an OEM solution to manufacturers of PC and Macintosh computers. Many of today's Tablet PCs count on the advanced features and reliability of Wacom's technology for pen input. In the future, Wacom's pen and touch technology could play a leading role in the development of such mobile devices as smart phones and PDAs.

Product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners.

For information, please contact:

Kazuomi Ikeda
Wacom Co., Ltd. Public Relations
Tel: +81-(0)3-5309-1501
Email: wacompr@wacom.co.jp

Yuki Horie
Wacom Co., Ltd. Component Business Division
Tel: +81-(0)3-5309-1508

Wacom’s Latest Pen and Touch Sensor System Comes to Life on FMV-T8140, the World’s Lightest A4-Size

Wacom's latest pen and touch sensor system, the Penabled “G5” technology is employed on Fujitsu's FMV-T8140, a convertible tablet PC for corporate users released on June 25. FMV-T8140 is the world's lightest, A-4 size convertible tablet PC with a 12.1-inch screen weighing approximately 1.49kg. Wacom's “G5” technology features 50% more EMR sensor signal output, designed for tablet PCs, compared to its predecessors. Being thinner and lighter by 50%, the “G5” enabled the realisation of the lightness and thinness of FMV-T8140.

FMV-T8140 has ultra portable features such as its 33mm thickness that can withstand a total surface compression of 200kgf and a battery life of up to 11.3 hours. For more information about “FMV-T8140”, please visit: http://www.fmworld.net/biz/fmv/product/hard/sty0706/feature/t8140.html

About Wacom Penabled Technology

Wacom Penabled Technology is named for EMR (Electro-Magnetic Resonance) sensor technology built into tablet PCs and patented digital pen technologies, enabling users to use a single digital pen on a wide array of information devices that support Wacom Penabled technology. With a strong focus on providing “Wacom Penabled Technology” to support a widespread use of the natural and intuitive writing environment with “digital pen & paper,” we establish our position as the global leader in the market to provide enabling technologies for a variety of information devices.

About Wacom

Founded in 1983, Wacom is the world's leading manufacturer of pen tablets and interactive pen displays with customers worldwide using its cordless, battery-free, pressure-sensitive pen technology for digital content creation. Wacom's patented digital pen technology is also offered as an OEM solution to manufacturers of PC and Macintosh computers. Many of today's Tablet PCs count on the advanced features and reliability of Wacom's technology for pen input. In the future, Wacom's pen and touch technology could play a leading role in the development of such mobile devices as smart phones and PDAs.

Product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners.

For information, please contact:

Kazuomi Ikeda
Wacom Co., Ltd. Public Relations
Tel: +81-(0)3-5309-1501
Email: wacompr@wacom.co.jp

Yuki Horie Wacom Co., Ltd. Component Business Division
Tel: +81-(0)3-5309-1508

Fujitsu FMV-BIBLO series continues to provide popular Wacom’s sensor integration technology

Wacom announced that Fujitsu introduced its latest notebook PC “FMV-BIBLO NF75W/V” featuring “Flat Point Digitizer” which is based on Wacom’s “Penabled DualPad™” sensor integration technology that allows users to manipulate cursor on the screen and enter data using a digital pen or their fingers. The latest model with the Wacom technology is available from this month.

As the 4th generation model with Wacom Penabled DualPad technology, “NF75W/V” supports the following features using a digital pen:

• Handwritten data entry
• Free-hand drawing environment
• Handwritten e-mail messages
• Writing to popular documents (MS Word, Excel worksheet, etc.)
• Directly writing to digital camera pictures / images by hand

For more information about “FMV-BIBLO NF75W/V”, please visit: http://www.fmworld.net/product/hard/pcpm0704/biblo_loox/nf/index.html

“Penabled DualPad” technology is based on the capacitance sensor technology used in notebook PC touch-pads and Wacom’s EMR (Electro-Magnetic Resonance) sensor & controller technologies. The innovative, integrated technology allows users to enter data using a digital pen or their fingers on the same touch pad, combining an intuitive data manipulation environment using a pen and a highly efficient and accurate data entry by fingers.

About Wacom Penabled Technology

Wacom Penabled Technology is named for EMR (Electro-Magnetic Resonance) sensor technology built into tablet PCs and patented digital pen technologies, enabling users to use a single digital pen on a wide array of information devices that support Wacom Penabled technology. With a strong focus on providing “Wacom Penabled Technology” to support a widespread use of the natural and intuitive writing environment with “digital pen & paper,” we establish our position as the global leader in the market to provide enabling technologies for a variety of information devices.

About Wacom

Founded in 1983, Wacom is the world's leading manufacturer of pen tablets and interactive pen displays with customers worldwide using its cordless, battery-free, pressure-sensitive pen technology for digital content creation. Wacom's patented digital pen technology is also offered as an OEM solution to manufacturers of PC and Macintosh computers. Many of today's Tablet PCs count on the advanced features and reliability of Wacom's technology for pen input. In the future, Wacom's pen and touch technology could play a leading role in the development of such mobile devices as smart phones and PDAs.

Product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners.

For information, please contact:

Kazuomi Ikeda
Wacom Co., Ltd. Public Relations
Tel: +81-(0)3-5309-1501
Email: wacompr@wacom.co.jp

Yuki Horie
Wacom Co., Ltd. Component Business Division
Tel: +81-(0)3-5309-1508

Toshiba selected Wacom’s sensor system for its latest tablet PC

Wacom announced that Toshiba selected Wacom’s sensor system for its latest tablet PC “PORTEGE R400”. The latest model has been available since this April.

“PORTEGE R400” is a Windows Vista Business based tablet PC, featuring a felt-tip digital pen that provides better writing touch than previous models, as well as providing more comfortable data entry/manipulation environment such as:

• Handwritten data entry and conversion instead of using a keyboard
• Taking notes during a conference, or cutting/pasting images with a pen
• Manipulating the computer with gesture commands
• Handwritten notes to business documents / presentations
• Click / point & drag actions using a pen instead of a mouse

For more information about “PORTEGE R400”, please visit: http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/ebtext.to?page=r400_micro

About Wacom Penabled Technology

Wacom Penabled Technology is named for EMR (Electro-Magnetic Resonance) sensor technology built into tablet PCs and patented digital pen technologies, enabling users to use a single digital pen on a wide array of information devices that support Wacom Penabled technology. With a strong focus on providing “Wacom Penabled Technology” to support a widespread use of the natural and intuitive writing environment with “digital pen & paper,” we establish our position as the global leader in the market to provide enabling technologies for a variety of information devices.

About Wacom

Founded in 1983, Wacom is the world's leading manufacturer of pen tablets and interactive pen displays with customers worldwide using its cordless, battery-free, pressure-sensitive pen technology for digital content creation. Wacom's patented digital pen technology is also offered as an OEM solution to manufacturers of PC and Macintosh computers. Many of today's Tablet PCs count on the advanced features and reliability of Wacom's technology for pen input. In the future, Wacom's pen and touch technology could play a leading role in the development of such mobile devices as smart phones and PDAs.

Product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners.

For information, please contact:

Kazuomi Ikeda
Wacom Co., Ltd. Public Relations
Tel: +81-(0)3-5309-1501
Email: wacompr@wacom.co.jp

Yuki Horie Wacom Co., Ltd. Component Business Division
Tel: +81-(0)3-5309-1508

Wacom exhibits at SID 2007 held at Long Beach Convention Center from May 20-25

2007 International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition
May 20-25, 2007
Long Beach Convention Center
Long Beach, CA, USA

Wacom booth #1654

The SID International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition, now in its 45th year, is the premier international gathering of scientists, engineers, manufacturers and users in the electronic-display industry.

Wacom exhibits at WinHEC 2007 held at Los Angeles Convention Center from May 14-16

Conference: May 15-17, 2007
Exhibits: May 14-16, 2007
Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Wacom booth #427

WinHEC is the only Microsoft conference that focuses on designing PCs, servers, and devices that run and interface with Microsoft Windows. Now in its 16th year, this event brings industry professionals together each year to partner with Microsoft in driving future engineering and business directions for PC and device hardware.

Wacom Introduces New Pen And Touch Sensor Capabilities For Enhanced Mobile Computing Experience

Vancouver, WA – May 10, 2007 – The recently launched Gateway® E-155C thin and light convertible notebook computer employs Wacom®’s latest pen and touch sensor technology, delivering a computing experience that is natural, intuitive and multi-dimensional. By infusing keyboard, digital pen and touch-screen input capabilities into a single mobile device optimized for Windows VistaTM, Gateway’s E-155C emerges as the ideal productivity tool for education and business environments. On-the-go students, educators and business professionals will appreciate navigating via finger or pen, as well as having the ability to take handwritten notes, draw diagrams and edit documents.

Bringing Wacom’s Fifth Generation Digitizing Technology to Life

Gateway’s E-155C notebook is the first OEM mobile device to use Wacom’s Penabled® G5 digitizer technology. Major highlights of this new technology include:

• Newly designed back plate material that dramatically increases signal output and reduces the impact of electronic noise.
• Thinner and lighter sensor plate that attaches to the back plate through a simplified, robust manufacturing process, allowing mobile computing manufacturers to lower assembly costs, as well as build light and thin computers, PDAs, etc.
• Pen and touch compatibility for the ultimate computing experience.

“Wacom continues to push the pen and touch envelope with new design and manufacturing processes that will allow mobile computing manufacturers, like Gateway, to build intuitive and affordable mobile devices,” said Masahiko Yamada, President of Wacom Company, Ltd. “Gateway’s use of our input technology in their new E-155C is a testament to our collaborative effort to create innovative products that meet the current and future needs of today’s computing community.”

Working with Windows Vista&trad;

The introduction of Windows Vista provides hardware manufacturers and software developers a powerful platform on which to build new products. Pen and touch functionality supported at the operating-system level will allow the software community to create original and natural input options. This innovation within the software community will be supported by pen-related hardware advances facilitated by Wacom’s patented input technology. The net result of these symbiotic relationships will be the delivery of computing experiences that are faster, easier and more efficient.

About Wacom and Penabled Technology

Founded in 1983, Wacom is the world’s leading manufacturer of pen tablets and interactive pen displays with customers worldwide using its cordless, battery-free, pressure-sensitive pen technology for digital content creation. Wacom’s patented Penabled technology is also offered as an OEM solution to manufacturers of PC and Macintosh computers. Many of today’s Tablet PCs count on the advanced features and reliability of Wacom’s input technology. Additionally, Wacom’s pen and touch technology is playing a leading role in the development of such mobile devices as smart phones and PDAs. Wacom is committed to expanding the Penabled brand and will continue to roll out new input technologies that provide a natural and intuitive computing experience.

For information, please contact:

Douglas Little
Public Relations Manager
Wacom Technology Corp.
360-896-9833 x174
douglas.little@wacom.com

Wacom Input Technology to be Exhibited at Display 2007 held at Tokyo Big Sight, Japan

Dates: April 11 (Wed) - 13 (Fri) 10:00-18:00(-17:00 on 13th)
Venue: Tokyo Big Sight, Japan
Organized by: Reed Exhibitions Japan Ltd.

Booth # 1-003 (Touch panel corner)

As Windows Vista released into market, Wacom's pen input technology with its natural and direct user interface is assuming high expectations. Wacom's original EMR (Electro-Magnetic Resonance) method known as Wacom Penabled Technology brings you pen expression on computer screens just like on paper in addition to improving usability like choosing icons and scrolling. EMR sensor is placed behind the display which realizes high durability while maintaining display's clear image and brightness. With these advantages, EMR component is being accepted in tablet PCs, mobile applications, and devices used in severe environment. In Display2007 show, visit our booth to try our new demo machines with EMR+touch for both pen and finger input capability. Also shown are samples of small to desk top monitor size sensor, and pen varieties.

Items to be shown (plan)

small to desk top monitor size sensor
pen varieties
best matching protection plate for pen input
Wacom EMR pen input built in Tablet PCs
Wacom EMR+touch for both pen and finger input

Contact

For Wacom booth inquiries
For Display2006 inquiry please visit the official website.

We look forward to your visit.