Inkling!

I figure you've all probably seen this by now - it was announced 2 days ago after all - but it's just so damn cool that I have to blog about it here too.

Wacom, designers of tablets long before Steve Jobs made them cool, have announced a new device - the Inkling.

The Inkling is a device you clip onto the top of any sheet of paper, and, with a special pen, records everything you draw on the paper. It apparently records 1024 levels of pressure, so even the line thickness recorded will change depending on how hard you press on the paper. You can then export the image as any number of different file types, even a vector, and edit it in Illustrator or Photoshop.
Here's a video to make it a bit clearer:

According to Wacom, it's designed primarily for concept art and sketches, instead of 'finished product' kind of thing. It will be released here mid October, and will retail for $219.

I still don't really know how it works - there are a couple of questions that aren't addressed in the video - but it's awesome.

via Gizmodo