Genius intros portable G-Pen F-509 digital tablet
By Darren Murph 
posted February 20th 2009 4:26PM
posted February 20th 2009 4:26PM
posted February 20th 2009 4:26PM
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Looks like a rebranded aiptek.
You're correct good sir, it is a rebrand
I did a google.com image search and they match exactly.
so as i draw im supposed to be accidentally opening programs with my wrist?
I will only sense the pen. There is a magnetic field in the tablet and a coil in the pen which allows them to interact. I'm not sure I'd go with a no name brand like this. I'd go with Wacom because as everyone knows they have been making tablets forever. I think the first one I used was back in high school in 1981 or so.
The pen costs $1.09?
Interesting, that costs less than a good fountain pen.
can it compete with a WACOM?
not if you're a mac user, the drivers re horrible
contrary to popular belief, starcraft is kinda hard to play with a pen interface.
I wish they had taken digital notepad technology further...
A portable version of this that didnt' need special paper/pen would so replace my need of a tablet for college.
Ah well. go profit margins.
There are various products out there that are what you describe/
It's $109.... but what's a couple orders of magnitude.
for use in the car?
are you serious?
The site redirects you, it is like some sort of ad site, also it will redirect you to yellowpages and a video site... So don't click on anything.
Meh, the pen (I think) uses batteries. I'm gonna stick to my Wacom.
I can't imagine using a pen with batteries (unless they're lithium, and even then...). Even a triple-A would give the pen a wacky weight to it, even if it's somehow counterbalanced. Even!
hahaha $1.09???
OMG, a portable table with a cord. what will they think of next!
I can see it now.
A women, a bagel, a coffee, a cellphone w/o a headset... and a pen ... OH COME ON
"MIAMI (February 24, 2009)– Genius" - This article is from the future!!!!
Hah! I've had that exact tablet for 4 years, just branded differently.
Their website keeps redirecting me to other video or yellowpage type websites :/
http://www.geniusnetusa.com/newdetaprodtw.php?idsubcate=68&idcate=18&idprod=87
Kind of fishy if you ask me.
Methinks your computer is at fault. The link you provided works flawlessly on my side.
Maybe you're just looking at the link Engadget posted to cameratown, DundunDuuuuun. I'm having the same problem with Genius' site... keep getting redirected to stuff about cars.
Website redirect to cars... tablet for use in a car... I see what they did there...
I tested this on my virtual, it is the website and not my system ;)
I bought my Wacom with included 5 nice programs for drawing, painting, technical design, writing recognition, and note taking, in a discount supermarket for around 12 euros about an year ago, and it still work perfectly, even though my 4 years old daughter needs to use it every time she comes in my office.
I doubt that this one can be worth ten times as much.
FAKE! This is not a new tablet from Genius !
This is a branded Vistablet http://www.vistablet.net/
This tablets arn`t as good as a Wacom Bamboo...
It is a rebranded too of aiptek.
China made sold to 3 or 4 different companies to rebrand.
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16823102014&ATT=17-130-967&CMP=AFC-C8Junction $89 after rebate, 1 review...and not a good one.
I get the redirect too. I also immediately clicked on other links from the nav bar and was redirected as well. Something evil is happening to that site. If you look at source and click on some of the external links ... you'll be directed to a statistics page. If you look at the source for that page, you'll see a russian version of the statistics overview description. Hmmm. I think I've spent way too much time on this.
Yeah, the genius site has been hacked. I don't get the ads on FF&Ubuntu, although the sound plays. The source has a load of ad links in.
Buttons near the drawing surface on a tablet are a bad idea. This is why Wacom doesn't have them any more.
WARNING.
I have one of the other members of this line and the driver they provide ONLY provides TabletPC support. That works fine for anything that's tablet PC aware (like ArtRage), but the biggies - Photoshop and Painter don't recognise the pressure data from TabletPC - which means these tablets are essentially useless for Photoshop.
BTW, nTrig has the same problem - so all those cool multitouch hybrid (pen/touch) lappies don't work well with Photoshop or Painter either.
To be fair, this is Adobe and Corel's fault for not updating their code - but nonetheless, caveat emptor.
So it's Adobe and Corel's fault that the TabletPC APIs are incomplete (don't support rotation, angle, multiple buttons, etc)?
And it's somehow not Aiptek or nTrig's fault for not supporting the well documented APIs used by the pro applications?
In what bizzaro world?
They can pry my 6x11 Intuos3 from my cold dead hands...
I'll second that :)
i tried a couple 'off brand' tablets before i got the 6x11 wacom. nothing else can hold a candle to it.
that looks exactly like my vistablet
http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2430/194/32/1479330199/n1479330199_1946063_1701.jpg
exact same