Genius MousePen 8 x 6-Inch Graphic Tablet for Home and Office

by Genius

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 0.6 inches ; 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000LEI95I
• Item model number: MousePen 8X6
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (432 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #37 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Computer Accessories > Keyboards, Mice & Input Devices > Graphics Tablets
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 29, 2006

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

From the Manufacturer

Eye to Hand Fun to Input

Another creation by Genius is the MousePen 8x6, a deluxe package that includes a tablet with a comfortable 8x6-inch surface area, a cordless pen with 1024 levels of pressure-sensitivity, and a cordless three button mouse. This tablet is ergonomically designed for drawing, handwriting, sketching, coloring, or picture editing, and powered directly by the USB connection. It’s not only a fantastic media tool for SOHO or designers, but a "hand-eye" coordination, fun input device for a computer.

Tablet Plate The Genius MousePen tablet plate features a programmable "Hot-Cell" above the active area of the tablet for convenient and fast access to your favorite shortcuts.

Cordless Pen The cordless, 1024 levels of pressure-sensitivity pen can stimulate various painting tools, like a fountain pen, water-color pen or airbrush pen when using painting software; and it’s really easy to imitate your handwriting.

 

Cordless Tablet Mouse This tablet cordless mouse is fastidious about comfort design and accurate tracking, giving you entirely carefree navigation. No dust accumulation; never needs cleaning.

 

Valuable Free Software Quickly and easily reform your digital photos, create fine artwork, even mark up or take a note by using bundled valuable software-Corel painter 8 (Trial Version), PenSuite program (including: Annotate All/Word, Pen Commander, PenMail and PenSigner).

Key features:

• 8"x6" working area, comfortable for easy drawing, painting and using the PC
• 1024-level pressure sensitivity for all kinds of shapes and thickness control
• Make handwriting notes/drawings on the Internet and in any application program
• Cordless mouse and pen design gives you unlimited freedom
• 3D scroll wheel for fast browsing on the Internet and in Windows documents
• Corel Painter-The ultimate digital sketching and painting tool
• Supports Windows 2003/XP/Me/2000/98

Product Description

Item #: M16182. The Genius MousePen 8x6 is a deluxe package that includes a tablet with a comfortable 8"x6" surface area, a cordless pen with 1024 levels of pressure-sensitivity, and a cordless three button mouse. This brand new tablet is ergonomically designed for drawing, handwriting, sketching, coloring, or picture editing, and powered directly by the USB connection. It's not only a fantastic media tool for SOHO or designers. Product Description: Genius MousePen 8x6 - mouse, digitizer, stylusDevice Type: Mouse, digitizer, stylusConnectivity Technology: Wired - USBFeatures: Pressure sensitive penBattery: 2 x AAA typeOS Required: Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP Customers also search for: Discount Genius MousePen 8x6 - Mouse, Digitizer, Stylus, Buy Genius MousePen 8x6 - Mouse, Digitizer, Stylus, Wholesale Genius MousePen 8x6 - Mouse, Digitizer, Stylus, 0091163213123, 31100001101, Mouse and Pointing Devices

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

788 of 800 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars beware of negitive reviews, February 8, 2008

By 

Richard Nydegger (Lafayette, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Genius MousePen 8 x 6-Inch Graphic Tablet for Home and Office (Personal Computers)

I was searching for a less expensive version of a wacom. If youre reading this odds are you are 2. I read many reviews on the genius tablet. some good, some bad. For 50 buck I could afford to risk it.

Its a good thing i did, because I love this device.

Lets start off with the cons: Alot of the reviews i read said the pen didn't work out of the box. Well, neither did mine. However, I replaced the battries right off. Since the originals were preinstalled i figured on a slow power drain to be the root cause.

second, alot of bad reviews said the drivers were old, and sucked. I took their word on this and went to the website. a driver search revield 2 drivers available. the first one had "vista" in the file name dated 2007. And another one dated 2004. Since my search was winXP specific. I downloaded the newer 2007"vista" file. It works flawlessly.

A little tip for you xp installers. after install you reboot. after reboot, plug in the tablet. If it doesn't work restart the pc again. this time unplug your mouse. (once you get the hang of the pen, you'll never use it again anyway. it should work just like a mouse on your desktop.

photoshop complaints. My biggest concern about the tablet was the photshop complaints I read. Again I don't completely trust reviews (good, or bad). so i visited the website (before i used the tablet!).
So, heres the deal with pressure sensitivity and photoshop. You need to set your brush to the largest pixle brush you intend to use. The max pressure you use on the pen will be that brush size. Don't set you brush at 9 pix and try to push harder on tablet to make it bigger. I played aroud with a 300 pix brush and was able to make very fine lines with the slightest pressure.

There were a few reviews about dead spots in the tablet. I'm not sure if those people realize that there is a hotkey section all around the edge of the tablet. that area on the is USER PROGRAMABLE. That right, you can program the tablet (if you used the driver version i told you too, it'll be in the system tray, control panel, and in your start menu, You choose)So yes those areas will not do anything until you tell it to. (these areas are clearly marked as little boxes around the perimiter of the tablet.

Ok, so its not a WACOM. Who cares. This device works great (once you get use to it). It does what it is designed to do, and do it well. Best of all it's only 50 BUCK!!!!!!

Highly recommended

212 of 216 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great product!, October 18, 2007

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Katie Mayo - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Genius MousePen 8 x 6-Inch Graphic Tablet for Home and Office (Personal Computers)

This is the first tablet I've ever had. I purchased it because of the low price, thinking that I would just deal with the defects inherent in buying a cheap product. However, I have yet to encounter any defects! It works perfectly with my existing programs, the stylus is comfortable to handle, the tablet is light, easy to transport and plug in, and the pad is very sensitive. Definitely worth the money and I would recommend it to any first time tablet user. It's incredibly easy to use. My only complaint is the hot buttons on top all look the same, but I solved that by putting little stickers above the ones I use the most often to differentiate between them!
I can't imagine what more a person would want from a tablet, to tell you the truth, and why buy a $100+ one when you can get this?

179 of 188 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent Tablet for the price, November 14, 2007

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EnergyBeing11:11 "Energy Being" (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Genius MousePen 8 x 6-Inch Graphic Tablet for Home and Office (Personal Computers)

I have both the WACOM tablet and this Genius tablet. The WACOM is a better quality tablet for the professional artist and designer. This tablet is great though for those just starting out and don't want to spend the extra cash. I guess with these tablets you do get what you pay for. Works great with WINDOWS XP. Not sure about Mac or Vista though. Cursor does jump sometimes... be warned. Also, I'd never get any tablet larger than the 8x6... really no need for it. A small footprint works great. Good Luck!