Wacom Bamboo Spark puts your notes on paper on your smartphone

BERLIN — Our paperless society still has a lot of paper and a lot of people scribbling notes on them. The worst part is when we have to combine our digital notes with the ones we sketched on napkins at our favorite diner. Wacom feels your pain, and now it thinks it has a solution: the new Wacom Bamboo Spark.

This new pen and notebook system, which Wacom unveiled just before IFA 2015 and showed off for the first time at the annual ShowStoppers event, is nothing like Wacom's original Bamboo stylus. Instead, the Spark Bamboo looks and feels like a real pen and it writes on paper like one, too. The difference, though, is that what it writes can be captured and digitized — if you use it with its partner notepad holder. It includes a special electro magnetic resonance infused A5-sized pad that sits under a similarly sized, yet otherwise average note page. Read more...