Adesso Gives PC Users Creative License with New Line of Pen-based PC Drawing Tablets

Adesso’s new CyberTablets include Adobe’s Photoshop Elements 3.0 and offer a large, ergonomic workspace and pressure-sensitive pen, for highly accurate drawing, handwriting, sketching, coloring and editing

Las Vegas (PRWEB) January 5, 2006 -- Adesso Inc., a leading manufacturer and distributor of innovative and stylish keyboards, tablets, mice, touchpads, and input peripherals, today introduced its new CyberTablet bundles featuring Adobe’s Photoshop Elements 3.0. The CyberTablet-series is available today through Ingram Micro, Tech-Data and Synnex, direct vendors including Amazon, Buy.com, PC Mall, CDW, mWave, TigerDirect, and Insight; retail stores such as Fry’s and Micro Center; and through leading catalogs including CDW, PC Mall and PC Connection.

Adesso will highlight its full family of products at the Consumer Electronics Showcase (CES 2006) in Las Vegas, January 5 - 8, in the Sands Convention Center at booth # 70970.

The Adesso CyberTablets for PCs feature a high performance, pressure-sensitive wireless pen, large format, ergonomic tablet, wireless mouse, and robust software package that enables users to naturally draw and write freehand graphics and text as comfortably as they would on real paper. CyberTablets were designed for computer artists, graphic designers, photo editors and office and CAD/CAM applications. Other emerging applications include Internet whiteboard graphics, signature verification for e-commerce as well as handwriting/text conversion.

“With the additional of Adobe Photoshop Elements, CyberTablets offer users a powerful all-inclusive solution to start creating, editing and working immediately,” said Allen Ku, CEO of Adesso, Inc. “Adesso’s CyberTablets offer a real world alternative, giving customers comparable, and in some cases better performance, all at a fraction of the cost to other products on the market today.”

The Adesso CyberTablet 12000 is an ergonomically designed wireless tablet with an included wireless two-button scroll-wheel mouse for easy drawing, handwriting, sketching, coloring and picture editing. With its massive 12 x 9-inch work space, the CyberTablet 12000 offers the freedom of movement and fine-tuned sensitivity to accomplish the most sophisticated computer-aided designing tasks. The MSRP for the CyberTablet 1200 alone is $169.99 and $199.00 with a bundled package including Adobe PhotoShop Element 3.0 software.

The Adesso CyberTablet 8600 offers a large 8 x 6-inch workspace and is designed for both PC and Mac computer artists, CAD/CAM engineers, graphic designers and business professionals. It includes a wireless 2-button ergonomic mouse with scroll wheel for alternative cursor control. The CyberTablet 8600 retails for $129.99 alone or $149.00 with a bundled package including Adobe PhotoShop Element 3.0 software.

Adesso CyberTablets offer 512-levels of pressure sensitive input points to provide all the comforts of a normal pencil with precise accuracy and sensitivity for highly accurate rendering in painting and writing. The wireless, two-button pens feature 0.42mm accuracy and a 0.32 inch reading height with high resolution, supporting up to 3048 lines per inch. The tablets are completely USB powered and do not require a separate power adapter.

The tablets also include a full-featured suite of productivity software including, Free Notes, Office Ink, Power Presenter RE and Photo Impact XP. Adesso provides users with everything they need to utilize their new tablets right out of the box offering a variety of tools for handwriting recognition, capturing handwritten notes and signatures, and adding annotation on documents.

About Adesso

Adesso was founded in 1992. The company manufactures and markets innovative, ergonomic, industrial, programmable, wireless, and foldable keyboards as well as touchpads, mice, numeric keypads and high performance Graphic Tablets. Adesso most successful product lines include its Tru-Form ergonomic keyboards and Glidepoint touchpads.

The company is located at 160 Commerce Way, Walnut, CA 91789. The company can be reached at (909) 839-2929 or via the web at www.adesso.com.

Media Contact:

Carlos Mangandy

FutureWorks for Adesso

408-428-0895 Ext. 104

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