Art, Design & Creative Tools · Recorded milestone
Pressure-sensitive pen tablet
Recorded year1988
Wacom's cordless pen tablets sense how hard the artist presses, so digital brushes behave like real ones.
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- Light penRecorded · 1955enables
- Personal computerRecorded · 1975enables
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.