Bamboo Stylus for iPad (CS100K)

by Wacom

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.7 x 0.4 x 0.4 inches ; 0.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B004VM0SE6
• Item model number: CS100K
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (191 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #35 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Computer Accessories > Touch Screen Tablet Accessories
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 20, 2011

Product Description

Color: BLACK

From the Manufacturer

The Wacom Bamboo Stylus allows you to draw, sketch, take notes, and express yourself creatively on your iPad. With its firm, balanced feel, Bamboo Stylus offers a more comfortable way to take notes in meetings and classroom settings or to sketch out ideas on the go. A slim tip offers exceptional precision for drawing or navigating your touchscreen, and the tip's special coating ensures a pen-like feel on your tablet's touchscreen. Wacom even offers a free download, the Bamboo Paper App, which works like a virtual notebook on your iPad or home computer.

• Draw, create, write, and navigate on your iPad
• Slim tip for pen-like feel and enhanced drawing precision
• Weight-balanced design for a comfortable, natural feel
• Ideal for use with numerous iPad apps, including Bamboo Paper
• Compatible with mobile tablets
• One-year warranty

The Bamboo Stylus delivers a premium, pen-like feel, and is available in a wide range of colors. View larger.

Comfortably jot hand-written notes on your iPad. View larger.

Take advantage of iPad apps designed for doodling, sketching, note-taking, and more. View larger.

Elegant Design, Natural Feel

The Bamboo Stylus combines comfort and elegance with its sophisticated design, satin-textured metal body, and balanced weighting. Featuring a small stylus tip (6 millimeters in diameter), the stylus provides a precise digital inking experience. A special coating on the rubber stylus tip gives it a natural, pen-like feel.

The Bamboo Stylus weighs 20 grams, is 120 millimeters in length, and features a 9-millimeter pen barrel.

Ideal for Artists and Note Takers

The Bamboo Stylus makes the iPad even more versatile by making it possible to take handwritten notes, highlight text, edit documents, and sketch out ideas. It can be used effectively with a number of apps developed for the iPad, including Bamboo Paper, which allows you to write notes digitally as you would on paper, and GoodReader, which allows you to add comments or sign your name to PDF documents, and many others.

For visual artists and doodlers, the stylus works well with Autodesk's SketchBook Express, a drawing and sketching app; Adobe Ideas, which enables you to add your own embellishments to an image; Doodle Buddy, a simple doodle pad; and ArtRage, a fun painting experience on iPad.

Bamboo Paper App Functions as a Digital Notebook

An excellent companion to the Bamboo Stylus, the Bamboo Paper App is available for free download via the Wacom App Store and iTunes. Featuring a number of different paper types (blank, lined, or graph), several pen thickness selections and ink color options, Bamboo Paper offers the ease of your own natural handwriting as you smoothly sketch your thoughts and ideas on digital paper. With a touch of the stylus, you can create your own notebooks, manage your digital note library, and sketch ideas that can be archived for future use.

With a user interface that is fun and easy to use, Bamboo Paper lets you flip through your notes and browse thumbnail images of your pages. You can even bookmark important pages and send an individual page or an entire book by email.

Compatibility and Warranty Information

The Wacom Bamboo Stylus is compatible with the iPads and most mobile tablet devices.

The stylus is backed by a one-year warranty.

What's in the Box

Bamboo Stylus.

Product Description

The Bamboo Stylus, from the leader in digital pen technology, is a brushed aluminum stylus for use with an iPad. The Bamboo Stylus is elegantly designed featuring a premium look and feel. A well balanced pen with smooth pen-to-paper feel, the Bamboo Stylus is durable with optimal weight and balance for comfortable use.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

200 of 212 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Stylus, Bad Price!, May 29, 2011

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iJavaJoe "ijavajoe" (Kalamazoo, MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bamboo Stylus for iPad (CS100K) (Personal Computers)

The Wacom Bamboo stylus for iPad works rather well. In my experience it draws respectably and feels good in the hand. The Bambou has a soft rubber tip that reacts serviceabily on the iPad screen. A rubber tip stylus works much better than a sponge tipped stylus, like the Pogo. However, Boxwave, Acase, and Targus all make very good rubber tip styli that work nicely , perhaps even better than the Bamboo stylus, and on Amazon they cost anywhere from half to one third the price.

Unfortunately I see no real advantage to the Bambou stylist. The tip isn't smaller then any of the aforementioned styli and if the tip wears out you can't replace it. It's true the Bambou is a bit heftier than the other styluses, but in use, a heavier stylist tends to tire your hand out more and after several hours of drawing or typing this can be most tiresome.

Wacom is a very well-respected name in the tablet industry. They make excellent products. This is a good product at an outrageous price. If Wacom would work to redesign this stylus with a smaller, replaceable and more responsive tip it might justify the price. For the time being, until the price comes down in half, I would recommend going after one of several less expensive and as good alternatives. There's just no advantage to this stylus.

147 of 155 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars With the right App this thing rocks!, May 6, 2011

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J. Haggard (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews
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I have been trying to use my iPad at work more and more to eliminate carrying around a legal pad and always wasting paper. The issue I've come into is writing on the iPad has been a challenge. I've tried multiple pen stylus' before and never been happy so when I had the opportunity to review this one I jumped at the opportunity.

Initial impressions using the Bamboo Stylus were bad. I fired up Penultimate and started trying to write. The grip felt good, the stylus is comfortable in your hand but it was STILL like trying to write with a crayola crayon. It just didn't work well. The text was hard to read and it looked like a 4 year old was writing.

I was disappointed and tried a few other apps, the touch sensitivity of the Bamboo stylus is great. It is responsive and much faster then the other brands I've tried but it was still hard to write with.

But then I found NOTE TAKER HD, which is the ultimate app if you want to do hand writing on the iPad and use it like a real legal pad. Note taker HD gives you a large box on part of the screen you write it, which makes it easy as you write big but then the app shrinks the text down and puts it on the page. It's very slick and if you want to use the Bamboo Stylus for writing I highly recommend you pair it with the Note Taker App. After I did that I loved the Bamboo Stylus.

I carry my iPad around currently in a Marware eco-vue case and while there is no pen clip on the case I found the Bamboo stylus slides perfectly on the center fold of the case and will stay when the iPad is closed. So now I have my ipad, my case and a stylus.

In summary:

CON's

-Feels like writing with a crayon in most apps I tried.

PRO's

-Comfortable to hold

-Built well, the pocket clip is metal and not plastic like other brands where the clip will break off.

-With the right app (drawing or writing) this is easy to use

-Very responsive, in playing I was able to do shading, cursive you could see the change in line texture as I wrote based on pen angle and pressure.

I like it and am glad I got it. This stylus and the note taker HD app together are what I have been looking for to make my iPad more functional in the workplace.

UPDATE!! 7/6/2011 -

This stylus is still my favorite, but I wanted to let you know that Bamboo now has a free (at least as of the time I write this) app for your iPad so if you don't want to buy an app like Note Taker HD the Bamboo app compliments it nicely. I do however still prefer Note Taker HD as it has many additional features but Bamboo App works good too!

47 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good stylus, but way overpriced, June 17, 2011

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Matthew VanAndel "Veraxus" (SoCal, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bamboo Stylus for iPad (CS100K) (Personal Computers)

You have a lot of choices when it comes to capacitive stylii - but the Wacom brand carries a lot of weight and loyalty, and that has turned this johnny-come-lately stylus into the de-facto choice for many iPad owners and artists.

That's fine, the Bamboo is a great stylus. It works well and feels substantive, solid, and well made. I have only one problem with it - the PenGo Touchpen iPad Stylus is half the price and is virtually identical to the Bamboo in every way. Both have a smallish rubber-bubble tip, are about the same size, length, and style, and both feel and behave exactly the same way in every iPad app I've used (Penultimate, uPad, Sketchbook Pro, Inspire Pro, etc). Also, both have the same "squishy" character when writing or drawing. Still, as far as squishyness is concerned, both the Pengo and Bamboo stylii feel much better than their competitors thanks to their smaller tips.

I will say this - the Bamboo's construction feels more substantive than the Pengo's does, and it LOOKS more professional. For some, that's a critical point, especially when cost is no object. For instance, the Bamboo feels more "solid" where the Pengo feels light and empty. But does that make the Bamboo worth twice the Pengo stylus? Personally, I think not... besides, some may prefer the lighter hand-feel of the Pengo. Ultimately, it's a matter of taste and cost.

You certainly won't be disappointed with the Bamboo - but if you want the same great writing experience at half the cost, you should seriously consider the PenGo Touchpen iPad Stylus too.

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