Designed for rough concepting and creative brainstorming, Inkling bridges the gap between paper sketching and digital drawing by giving users at the front end of the creative process a way to rough-out ideas with real ink on paper and capture their concepts digitally so that they can be later refined on their computer.

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His job at Intel takes him to festivals and events such as the Bay Area Maker Faire, where he leads creative workshops on such activities as making digital circuits by drawing with a pencil.

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Designs can be created using computer graphics, digital photography, line drawing and painting.

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These pressure variations will appear in the digital version of your drawing.

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It includes drawing tools and digital watermarking for embedding copyright information, and new special effects, such as bevel, weave, and blinds.

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Next on the drawing board: a digital machine to help you sleep better.

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"The People's Collection will use advanced, cutting edge technology to enable everyone to create their own history collections, drawing on content from existing digital collections in our museums, archives and libraries, " he said.

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Both attempts at digital board-gaming demonstrate how Scrabulous filled a niche by drawing on Facebook's greatest asset--what Zuckerberg calls "the social graph, " the links between users and their friends.

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By capturing the nuances of any drawing, novice and professional artists alike can easily create detailed, multifaceted digital paintings in a matter of minutes.

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