How cute. The cat replaces the mouse. Above is the ACECAT II (pen and electronic tablet) which can be used as a computer pen for drawing, drafting and for doing all the usual thing the mouse does.
ACECAT II uses precise positioning. The tablet and the screen correlate. Where you point on the tablet is exactly where your cursor appears on the screen. When you hold the pen down the nib clicks, in an equivalent to the left mouse button (the right button is on the handle of the pen).
The ACECAT II costs $199 at Dick Smith Electronics.
It is much more precise than the old mouse, which is impossible to draw with. I found the ACECAT good for the “”Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” exercise where you do not look at the result as you draw. The ACECAT comes with Matisse in Gray software which produces hundreds of shades of grey which, combined with any number of art software packages, provides a cleaner, easier and faster electronic version of airbrushing.
The ACECAT works with laptops, though the documentation does not tell you how to set it up. I only got it going after a few experiments and mutterings of: “”Oh bother, it appears this interesting device will not work with a laptop. What a shame,” or words of similar meaning.