Why is it so complex?
I thought it was just a special tip configuration that the touch screen could read. Some static rubber mount and a simple touch screen tip on a basic rotation hinge. Let the touch screen do the work, this should never need a battery let alone that much circuitry.
Sad.
>this should never need a battery let alone that much circuitry.
Found the CS major.
Leave EE to smart people please.
>static rubber mount and a simple touch screen tip on a basic rotation hinge
No.
>he thinks that's complex
Oops
But wacoms magnetic induction peripherals werks just fine
he is bringing to attention that the puck is just a less-functional second stylus
that doesn't look like a lot of circuitry
just a bluetooth chip and a bit of fluff
But it performs a slightly different function than a stylus.
What is Wacom for $400 Alex?
>what is ntrig
Like what? A simple 1-100 value instead of 4 on/off buttons?
If it even has 100 points of resolution in that little dial
Why does this fucking exist?
Is a clickable color swatch too much for artfags?
Why is this also fucking $100?
Actually I work on novel conductors materials so the I can have that perfect electrical property. I is too high level, got to work on the atomic level if you want thing done right.
That said I do believe in simplified design, another tracing dial subroutine would use far less resources as this already requires an input motioner program of some kind, so adding a native 2d tracing would be much cleaner then whatever this uses, more so if it is wireless as that would require loading a much larger WiFi library and actively adjusting for background interference.
More complex then it needs to be, not too complex for me to understand.
Why not, I know the tracing won't be as accurate, but larger scale rotations would still make it very useful and cover nearly every situation. If they need that much they need to get something like a 3Dconnexion. And that level of work you shouldn't be using a tablet for anyway.
yep, it is just a overly complex stylus that adds a new dial function. A slide bar could do most of the same for a lot less.
Needing a Bluetooth chip when having physical contact with a touch screen? Why even have a touch screen if they don't use it?
$100? Dial with bluetooth and battery, this just gets worse the more I learn about this junk.
A keyboard accomplishes the same thing you textwalling dunce
Because Wacom has a patent on magnetic induction stylus, it's why everybody else's styluses have to be charged
>$3000 laptop, $100 dail
>AA Batteries
This will never not be funny.
Which they have a patent for.
Those are AAAA batteries you dufus.
>Needing a Bluetooth chip when having physical contact with a touch screen? Why even have a touch screen if they don't use it?
You could say the exact same thing about the Apple Pencil.
One reason is pairing. Another is because you are use the fucking dial without it being on the screen.
Yes, but if we are going that far we would just not do process intensive graphical editing a tablet to start with. One can always take it a step further, but at some level you got to stop. But yes, a keyboard is a great input tool.
Also way do you need to be so rude to me? What did I do to deserve such name calling?
go talk with Corning about their laser optic tracking glass, it was suppose to be market ready by around this time. Higher accuracy and reads pressure, so any touch can track with varable pressure reading.
There's literally nothing wrong with using AA or similar batteries for peripherals.
They're rechargeable, replaceable and cheap and provide more than enough power.
Not everything needs a built in lithium battery.
AAA, you pedantic nigger
But built In batteries are so much more stylish
It doesn't even need to use the touch screen, wacom pens can communicate with a tablet fine floating above the surface without any batteries.
AA/AAA batteries last longer though.
I bought my M705 eight months ago and I am still using the batteries that came with it, I never turn it off and I use it every day for several hours.
It estimates another 883 days of battery life remaining.
Find me any lithium-ion mouse with that kind of battery life. Even with rechargeable AAs you get multiple months worth of use.
Wacom has a patent on that though.
Didn't the original surface use a wacom pen? Surely they could have licensed the technology if they really wanted.
>It estimates another 883 days of battery life remaining.
you know it's lying you to. if you believe that, then I have awful news if you have a gf or wife.
It just new battery technology, they say it gets better every year.
Mine says 9999999 years remaining, which means it the new lithium cell has better energy density then pure plutonium.
Can't stop newer and better tech, soon well have __insert_some_magitech_here__ then I will be a god.
DON'T DO THIS I LOST MY HAND
Gimmick. DOA.
They could, but again they have to license it.
Also, The dial functions even if you have it sitting on the desk next to the computer, or across the room from the computer, it just has extra functions if placed on the screen with an application that supports it.
That wouldn't work if it was just Wacom induction based.
It's not lying to me, it is an estimate.
We all know that every single battery life estimate isn't accurate, but after eight months of use the batteries are still at a good charge level, that much can be accurately determined.
it has program-controlled haptic feedback