Wacom Co., Ltd. (株式会社ワコム, Kabushiki gaisha Wakomu, /ˈwɑːkəm/) is a Japanese company headquartered in Kazo, Saitama, Japan, that specializes in manufacturing graphics tablets and related products.
[8] Its products were initially targeted at professional artists, but by the late 1990s it aimed to expand to home users as well.
[9] In 2001, the company partnered with Sony to introduce a Vaio laptop with built-in touch functionality.
[14][23] In 2011, the company released a tablet-less pen, which allowed for drawing on any piece of paper, but was criticized for being inaccurate compared to a normal photo scan.
[24][25] In 2018, they partnered with Magic Leap to create collaborative mixed reality design tools at CES.
[26] The tablets use electromagnetic resonance (EMR) technology, a type of faint radio signal.
[35] The company replied in a post on their blogs on January 9, stating that "using AI-Generated images in these assets was not their intent.