Only, rather than drawing with a digital stylus on a slate you draw with real ink on regular paper, and rather than having the gestures appear on your computer screen, they appear on your phone or tablet. Well the Bamboo Folio and its smaller, less expensive sister, the Bamboo Slate, are like that. Wacom is by far the biggest name in the business. You've probably heard of Wacom in the context of the stylus-and-slate digitisers that photographers and graphic artists use, to convert pen gestures into mouse-like computer gestures. Wacom's Bamboo Slate converts handwriting on paper to handwriting on your phone or tablet. It might be a scenic way to do things, and it might be extremely pleasant, but it's not necessarily the most direct route. Today's review comes to you via Wacom's latest Bamboo Folio tablet, a pen-and-paper digitiser that lets you write and sketch the way nature intended and then save a copy on your mobile phone or tablet.īut when I say it comes 'via' the Wacom Bamboo Folio, I mean that in the same way you might drive from Melbourne to Sydney 'via' Perth, or in the same way you might floss your teeth 'via' your anus.

Wacom bamboo slate paper