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Inkling digital sketch pen

When you sketch something with the Inkling ballpoint pen from Japanese manufacturer Wacom Company, it digitally records the sketch, regardless of what kind of paper you're using. When the Inkling is connected to a computer via USB, the drawings are transmitted as bitmap or vector files.

What the red dot jury said: "The jury was impressed by this sketch pen's high degree of mobility and flexibility. It can be operated by itself without additional devices -- anytime and anywhere -- in order to bring ideas to paper and digitalize them at a later point in time."