Bamboo Loop: Keep Friends & Family in Loop with Wacom’s New App

Launched by Wacom´s app software group, Bamboo Loop is making mobile messaging highly visual, beautiful and fun

Wacom today announces Bamboo Loop – a new app for iPhone, iPod Touch and Android devices. It combines principles of photo sharing and messaging in a unique and fun way: digital, paper-like photocards are sent (“looped”) to friends, family members and close colleagues.

By using Bamboo Loop ‘Wish-you-were-here’ messages or birthday greetings for example, become very personal and simple creative artworks. These ‘digital cards’ can then be returned by the recipient with a comment, a smiley face or a drawing of their own, so a card can ‘loop’ back and forth. Everyone can be creative.

Unlike many apps in which a photo is added separately to a text message, in Bamboo Loop photos take centre stage and can be illustrated and personalised with the built-in editing tools. Sketch, scribble or write on the photo with the finger or a Bamboo Stylus, loop it back to the creator, send it on to someone new or share it with social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Google +.

The basic card within the app is a photograph framed with a white border; very handy for personal messages. A style browser offers a choice of different backgrounds, card shapes, patterns, photo filters, colour palettes and effects, enabling users to easily create cards with a nostalgic, artistic or fun feel. Basic styles are free, with the option to purchase additional styles in-app from the Loop Style Gallery.

Following Bamboo Paper, an app for note taking and sketching on iPad and selected Android smartphones by Samsung, Bamboo Loop is the second app developed by Wacom. Bamboo Paper already counts more than 5 million installations.

Bamboo Loop and Bamboo Paper are available as a free downlaod via iTunes or Google Play.

For more information please visit bambooloop.wacom.com

About the Bamboo Stylus family

Bamboo Loop works perfectly with the Wacom Stylus line-up. Besides the Bamboo Stylus mini, a colourful Stylus recommended for the use of smartphones, Wacom also provide the multi-purpose Bamboo Stylus duo – a rubber nib and a ball-point ink pen in one – the Bamboo Stylus pocket – a compact and extendable stylus for usage on the go – and the colourful Bamboo Stylus solo range – a rubber nib pen for media tablets in a choice of colours:. In addition to those capacitive stylus models Wacom also offers with the Bamboo Stylus feel a pressure sensitive Stylus range for the latest-generation Windows 8 and Android tablets based on Wacom feel IT Technologies.

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 About Wacom

Wacom Europe GmbH is a subsidiary of Wacom Company, Ltd. (Tokyo Stock Exchange 6727). Founded in 1983, Wacom is a global company based in Japan with subsidiaries and affiliate offices around the world to support marketing and distribution in over 150 countries. Wacom’s vision to bring people and technology closer together through natural interface technologies has made it the world’s leading manufacturer of pen tablets, interactive pen displays, and digital interface solutions. The advanced technology of Wacom’s intuitive input devices has been used to create some of the most exciting digital art, films, special effects, fashion and designs around the world and provides business and home users with their leading interface technology to express their personality. Millions of customers are using its cordless, battery-free, pressure-sensitive pen technology.

The company also offers its products as OEM solutions to leading manufacturers serving incremental markets. Wacom’s interface technology, called Wacom Feel IT Technologies, is also offered as an integrated solution to strategic partners. Most Tablet PC manufacturers count on the advanced features and reliability of the brand to deliver a superior user interface experience.