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title: "Genius MousePen 8 x 6-Inch Graphic Tablet for Home and Office"
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# 8x6 inch active area 1024 pressure sensitivity levels Cordless mouse & pen freedom Genius MousePen 8 x 6-Inch Graphic Tablet for Home and Office

**Brand:** genius
**Price:** $183
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🎨 Elevate your digital artistry with precision and freedom — don’t just create, Genius-create!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Genius MousePen 8 x 6-Inch Graphic Tablet for Home and Office by genius
- **How much does it cost?** $183 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Best For

- genius enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted genius brand quality
- Free international shipping included
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## Key Features

- • **Cordless Freedom:** Wireless pen and mouse design for unrestricted movement and ergonomic comfort
- • **Customizable Hot-Cells:** Programmable shortcut keys to streamline your workflow and boost productivity
- • **Seamless Compatibility:** Plug-and-play USB connectivity with Windows and Mac support for instant use
- • **Spacious 8x6-inch Canvas:** Generous workspace for detailed creativity and multitasking
- • **Precision at Your Fingertips:** 1024 pressure sensitivity levels for flawless line control and shading

## Overview

The Genius MousePen 8x6 Graphic Tablet offers an 8x6 inch active drawing area paired with a cordless pen featuring 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity, enabling nuanced control over strokes and shading. Designed for professionals and creatives, it includes a cordless mouse and programmable hot-cells for shortcut access, enhancing productivity. Compatible with Windows and Mac systems via USB, this tablet is ideal for digital drawing, note-taking, and photo editing, delivering a natural, ergonomic experience that fits seamlessly into home or office setups.

## Description

From the Manufacturer From the Manufacturer Eye to Hand Fun to Input Another creation by Genius is the MousePen 8x6, a deluxe package that includes a tablet with a comfortable 8x6-inch surface area, a cordless pen with 1024 levels of pressure-sensitivity, and a cordless three button mouse. This tablet is ergonomically designed for drawing, handwriting, sketching, coloring, or picture editing, and powered directly by the USB connection. It’s not only a fantastic media tool for SOHO or designers, but a "hand-eye" coordination, fun input device for a computer. Tablet Plate The Genius MousePen tablet plate features a programmable "Hot-Cell" above the active area of the tablet for convenient and fast access to your favorite shortcuts. Cordless Pen The cordless, 1024 levels of pressure-sensitivity pen can stimulate various painting tools, like a fountain pen, water-color pen or airbrush pen when using painting software; and it’s really easy to imitate your handwriting. Cordless Tablet Mouse This tablet cordless mouse is fastidious about comfort design and accurate tracking, giving you entirely carefree navigation. No dust accumulation; never needs cleaning. Valuable Free Software Quickly and easily reform your digital photos, create fine artwork, even mark up or take a note by using bundled valuable software-Corel painter 8 (Trial Version), PenSuite program (including: Annotate All/Word, Pen Commander, PenMail and PenSigner). Key features: 8"x6" working area, comfortable for easy drawing, painting and using the PC 1024-level pressure sensitivity for all kinds of shapes and thickness control Make handwriting notes/drawings on the Internet and in any application program Cordless mouse and pen design gives you unlimited freedom 3D scroll wheel for fast browsing on the Internet and in Windows documents Corel Painter-The ultimate digital sketching and painting tool Supports Windows 2003/XP/Me/2000/98

Review: Excellent Gadget. - This is an excellent little device. First off, some corrections and suggestions: The device I got came with 42 hot cells. 13, however were unmarked. They are there, however. Just use the other cells to gauge where they should be (there are 13 top cells as well, so they're in the same positions.) [Edit] As you will see in the following paragraphs, I was very excited about the hot cells, because I thought I could replace the many functions I use my keyboard for with those cells. Unfortunately, you have to look away from the screen to see them (which is impossible in the dark unless you put some sort of glow sticker on them). Therefore, keeping my keyboard on my left side has been much more efficient, because I can navigate by touch without taking my eyes off the screen. Note also, however, that I was already very practiced at using only my left hand to execute commands when I used a mouse. It's much faster, also, to simply choose tools from the toolbar (or use the already programmed keyboard shortcuts) than using a hot cell, and to make easy keyboard shortcuts for actions. [End Edit] The pen doesn't have an eraser, but, at least in Photoshop, a hardware eraser would be pointless. Make an action mapped to a function key that changes your tool to eraser, map it to your tablet hot cell, and you're good to go (It's FASTER than flipping the pencil around.) Don't know how? Here's a quick run-through (this is on PS7... other versions shouldn't be a lot different): Window->Action (Check it, if it's already checked uncheck and check it so you can see the action pallete) Click the action pallete, you can probably delete anything that's already there, but you don't need to. Click the create new button at the bottom of the pallete (notepad icon), name it and set it to whatever button combination you want (I think it has all th e function keys +shift+ctrl, so that's plenty of combinations) Hit the record button on the bottom of the pallete, then click the eraser tool. You'll see "Select Eraser" appear in the action pallete. Press Stop. Now in the system tray, click the icon that has a pen drawing on a tablet. Go to hot cells. Click whichever cell you want to make the eraser, name it Eraser, then click define. A menu will pop up, Select Hotkeys: check the ctrl or shift buttons if you used them in your combination, and then choose the correct function button. Then click OK/Apply and your done. Now any time you tap in that cell you select the eraser. With actions, you can also change the brush type, size, opacity, and what pen pressure does, if you want. They're very powerful for streamlining your projects, especially if you end up doing a lot of the same things to every image. With hot cells, it's even faster (though I wish they would ship with blank labels, but I'll get some.) Next, points about pen pressure not working/etc. All the solutions have already been offered. Download the updated driver (I am using this on Vista 64 with no problems. A new driver was issued Jan 15 specifically for Vista 64.) It apparently addressed CS4 issues as as well, but I don't have that to comment. Run the set-up from the zip file on their site, and you'll be good to go (it may take a couple of minutes.. my computer's fairly fast and it still took awhile. During that time it said it was "not responding" but it was actually installing the driver. Don't trust Windows... Reboot. Anyway, next, change the battery. I use rechargeable batteries in all of my wireless stuff, anyway, so it wasn't a big deal. The pen was working before I did this in mine, as well. Finally, check your photoshop brush pallete and make sure you've got it set right. Opacity is in other options, Size is in Shape Manipulation. Those are the only two I foresee using "Pen Pressure" to control. Now, if you're using size, your MAX pressure equals the brush size you select. It won't go bigger than that. So pick the biggest you want it to get, and learn the pressure to get it as small as you want. It takes some getting used to. With opacity it's the same thing, use the highest opacity you want to get to on a single stroke. Another con, the New and Open Hot Cells (which are labeled on the tablet) were reversed on mine. it took all of two seconds to fix, though. (switch the ctrl+o and ctrl+n definitons to the other). Alright, enough of that. The tablet is great. 8x6 is plenty of room, and the texture is nice. Whoever said it was sandpaper is nuts, or they've upgraded the hardware. feels very close to drawing in my sketchbook. I really like it. The pressure sensitivity works well, though I would have preferred some way to have the very lightest pressure be just making contact with the tablet (and not pressing down at all). This is how I do light shading with pencil, and it's a lot more comfortable for me. Adjustments have to be made for the convenience of digital medium, though. Oh, uh... I haven't even taken the mouse out of the bag. I already have a wireless keyboard with touchpad that works great, and then pen works well as a mouse, too. This IS set in absolute mode. I haven't found anyway to make the cursor position the center of the tablet, which really would have been nice (mark the center point with a line and position it with a mouse when you need to be exact.) Hovering works... but basically you just have to memorize how things on screen relate to the pad. I'm sure it will become second nature eventually, but it's a pain right now. The transition is difficult enough from not using hand-eye coordination to draw. [Edit] I now much prefer having it in absolute mode, where the center of the tablet is always the center of the screen. With some practice, I'm now able to reasonably predict the area where I'm going to draw without even looking at the pad. Beware turning the pad at a different angle to your screen :-)[End Edit] Let's see... I think that's it for now. I'll try it in ubuntu 8.10 eventually, and update. From the reviews it seems GIMP works well with it, so that should be interesting. [Edit] Works great on Ubuntu, although it's not fully functional. I couldn't get the pressure working, though I didn't try long. I got along without pressure for a long time :-). I'm very happy with this purchase, and would likely pay twice what I did for it again, which says quite a lot. [End Edit]
Review: My first tablet: it's good and it does work with Mac - Wow. This is my first review on desertcart ever. I'll try to make it good. I recently started a big project. I needed a tablet because I wanted to be able to write directly into a paint program and use the resulting image. A mouse would make this exceedingly difficult. I did a lot of research and since this isn't a major part of my project, I just wanted something simple and cost effective. I debated between this and the Wacom Fun Tablet and the Wacom Small Tablet. This one was cheaper and seemed to be able to do the job, so I got it. I was worried as to whether it would be compatible with my MacBook Pro though. It was. It states its Mac compatibility on the box that you receive, but here in the desertcart reviews it's confusing (at least I wasn't sure if it would be). It works. Just follow the instructions as another reviewer said: download the driver first; restart the computer; then, plug in the MousePen; if it doesn't work, take it out and plug it in again (that's what I had to do; no big deal). What I found is that this is great for me and probably others who want to do something similar; it's a basic tool that will let you write or draw and do it well for the price. I just got it but wanted to write a review because I didn't feel other reviews made it clear whether or not it really worked for a Mac and that it is a good product. Some points worth noting: -You can adjust the pressure. It can become pretty sensitive, so you shouldn't have any trouble making fine lines at all (just make sure that [as the previous reviewer stated] you set the brush for a big setting on your paint program so touching the pen lightly to the pad will bring out a clean line). -You can change the "Hot-Cells" around easily to open different programs; this is really nice and convenient. -You can adjust the size that corresponds to the screen, so moving the pen across the tablet can either move your mouse across the whole screen or move your mouse across about half of the screen. -But, it's not an awesome replacement for a mouse or a touchpad. I wouldn't use it to navigate around, just write and draw. I know, I know; basic stuff, but this is my first tablet and I would have liked to have known this (and maybe you might want to know it as well). The only negative point that might be worth mentioning is that it doesn't have a "touchpad" function as some of the Wacoms do, so you can't use your fingers to move around also. I would have never guessed this, but as you're working with the pad, it's something you want to have. Even though reviewers berated the touch function of the Wacom and other tablets, it's probably worth it if you're a more serious user and don't mind the extra bucks. That's why I gave this product a 4 and not a 5: for the price, ease of use, functionality, but missing touchpad function (that would have made this incredible). Now, my final comment is that I'm pretty happy with my purchase and if you're in a similar situation (need to draw or write easily), I'm pretty confident you will be too. Just my opinion and experience. I hope it helps :) Again, recommended.

## Features

- 8 x 6-inch working area, comfortable for easy drawing, painting and using the PC
- 1024-level pressure sensitivity for all kinds of shapes and thickness control
- Make handwriting notes/drawings on the Internet and in any application program
- Cordless mouse and pen design gives you unlimited freedom
- 3D scroll wheel for fast browsing on the Internet and in Windows documents

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B000LEI95I |
| Active Surface Area | 8 x 6 inches |
| Additional Features | Pen |
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,092 in Computer Graphics Tablets |
| Brand | Genius |
| Built-In Media | Mouse Pen and Cordless Mouse |
| Color | Black |
| Compatible Devices | Personal Computer |
| Connectivity Technology | USB |
| Customer Reviews | 3.8 out of 5 stars 520 Reviews |
| Global Trade Identification Number | 00091163213123, 04710268213123 |
| Item Weight | 2 Pounds |
| Manufacturer | Genius |
| Model Name | 8x6 |
| Model Number | 8x6 |
| Native Resolution | 1920x1080 |
| Operating System | Windows |
| Pressure Sensitivity | 1024 Levels |
| Screen Size | 8 Inches |
| Special Feature | Pen |
| Specific Uses For Product | personal |
| Target Audience | Teacher |
| UPC | 999998247194 091163213123 |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Genius
- **Connectivity Technology:** USB
- **Pressure Sensitivity:** 1024 Levels
- **Operating System:** Windows
- **Special Feature:** Pen

## Images

![Genius MousePen 8 x 6-Inch Graphic Tablet for Home and Office - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71SAY0J7pWL.jpg)

## Available Options

This product comes in different **Model** options.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent Gadget.
*by E***S on January 24, 2009*

This is an excellent little device. First off, some corrections and suggestions: The device I got came with 42 hot cells. 13, however were unmarked. They are there, however. Just use the other cells to gauge where they should be (there are 13 top cells as well, so they're in the same positions.) [Edit] As you will see in the following paragraphs, I was very excited about the hot cells, because I thought I could replace the many functions I use my keyboard for with those cells. Unfortunately, you have to look away from the screen to see them (which is impossible in the dark unless you put some sort of glow sticker on them). Therefore, keeping my keyboard on my left side has been much more efficient, because I can navigate by touch without taking my eyes off the screen. Note also, however, that I was already very practiced at using only my left hand to execute commands when I used a mouse. It's much faster, also, to simply choose tools from the toolbar (or use the already programmed keyboard shortcuts) than using a hot cell, and to make easy keyboard shortcuts for actions. [End Edit] The pen doesn't have an eraser, but, at least in Photoshop, a hardware eraser would be pointless. Make an action mapped to a function key that changes your tool to eraser, map it to your tablet hot cell, and you're good to go (It's FASTER than flipping the pencil around.) Don't know how? Here's a quick run-through (this is on PS7... other versions shouldn't be a lot different): Window->Action (Check it, if it's already checked uncheck and check it so you can see the action pallete) Click the action pallete, you can probably delete anything that's already there, but you don't need to. Click the create new button at the bottom of the pallete (notepad icon), name it and set it to whatever button combination you want (I think it has all th e function keys +shift+ctrl, so that's plenty of combinations) Hit the record button on the bottom of the pallete, then click the eraser tool. You'll see "Select Eraser" appear in the action pallete. Press Stop. Now in the system tray, click the icon that has a pen drawing on a tablet. Go to hot cells. Click whichever cell you want to make the eraser, name it Eraser, then click define. A menu will pop up, Select Hotkeys: check the ctrl or shift buttons if you used them in your combination, and then choose the correct function button. Then click OK/Apply and your done. Now any time you tap in that cell you select the eraser. With actions, you can also change the brush type, size, opacity, and what pen pressure does, if you want. They're very powerful for streamlining your projects, especially if you end up doing a lot of the same things to every image. With hot cells, it's even faster (though I wish they would ship with blank labels, but I'll get some.) Next, points about pen pressure not working/etc. All the solutions have already been offered. Download the updated driver (I am using this on Vista 64 with no problems. A new driver was issued Jan 15 specifically for Vista 64.) It apparently addressed CS4 issues as as well, but I don't have that to comment. Run the set-up from the zip file on their site, and you'll be good to go (it may take a couple of minutes.. my computer's fairly fast and it still took awhile. During that time it said it was "not responding" but it was actually installing the driver. Don't trust Windows... Reboot. Anyway, next, change the battery. I use rechargeable batteries in all of my wireless stuff, anyway, so it wasn't a big deal. The pen was working before I did this in mine, as well. Finally, check your photoshop brush pallete and make sure you've got it set right. Opacity is in other options, Size is in Shape Manipulation. Those are the only two I foresee using "Pen Pressure" to control. Now, if you're using size, your MAX pressure equals the brush size you select. It won't go bigger than that. So pick the biggest you want it to get, and learn the pressure to get it as small as you want. It takes some getting used to. With opacity it's the same thing, use the highest opacity you want to get to on a single stroke. Another con, the New and Open Hot Cells (which are labeled on the tablet) were reversed on mine. it took all of two seconds to fix, though. (switch the ctrl+o and ctrl+n definitons to the other). Alright, enough of that. The tablet is great. 8x6 is plenty of room, and the texture is nice. Whoever said it was sandpaper is nuts, or they've upgraded the hardware. feels very close to drawing in my sketchbook. I really like it. The pressure sensitivity works well, though I would have preferred some way to have the very lightest pressure be just making contact with the tablet (and not pressing down at all). This is how I do light shading with pencil, and it's a lot more comfortable for me. Adjustments have to be made for the convenience of digital medium, though. Oh, uh... I haven't even taken the mouse out of the bag. I already have a wireless keyboard with touchpad that works great, and then pen works well as a mouse, too. This IS set in absolute mode. I haven't found anyway to make the cursor position the center of the tablet, which really would have been nice (mark the center point with a line and position it with a mouse when you need to be exact.) Hovering works... but basically you just have to memorize how things on screen relate to the pad. I'm sure it will become second nature eventually, but it's a pain right now. The transition is difficult enough from not using hand-eye coordination to draw. [Edit] I now much prefer having it in absolute mode, where the center of the tablet is always the center of the screen. With some practice, I'm now able to reasonably predict the area where I'm going to draw without even looking at the pad. Beware turning the pad at a different angle to your screen :-)[End Edit] Let's see... I think that's it for now. I'll try it in ubuntu 8.10 eventually, and update. From the reviews it seems GIMP works well with it, so that should be interesting. [Edit] Works great on Ubuntu, although it's not fully functional. I couldn't get the pressure working, though I didn't try long. I got along without pressure for a long time :-). I'm very happy with this purchase, and would likely pay twice what I did for it again, which says quite a lot. [End Edit]

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ My first tablet: it's good and it does work with Mac
*by J***E on March 5, 2011*

Wow. This is my first review on Amazon ever. I'll try to make it good. I recently started a big project. I needed a tablet because I wanted to be able to write directly into a paint program and use the resulting image. A mouse would make this exceedingly difficult. I did a lot of research and since this isn't a major part of my project, I just wanted something simple and cost effective. I debated between this and the Wacom Fun Tablet and the Wacom Small Tablet. This one was cheaper and seemed to be able to do the job, so I got it. I was worried as to whether it would be compatible with my MacBook Pro though. It was. It states its Mac compatibility on the box that you receive, but here in the Amazon reviews it's confusing (at least I wasn't sure if it would be). It works. Just follow the instructions as another reviewer said: download the driver first; restart the computer; then, plug in the MousePen; if it doesn't work, take it out and plug it in again (that's what I had to do; no big deal). What I found is that this is great for me and probably others who want to do something similar; it's a basic tool that will let you write or draw and do it well for the price. I just got it but wanted to write a review because I didn't feel other reviews made it clear whether or not it really worked for a Mac and that it is a good product. Some points worth noting: -You can adjust the pressure. It can become pretty sensitive, so you shouldn't have any trouble making fine lines at all (just make sure that [as the previous reviewer stated] you set the brush for a big setting on your paint program so touching the pen lightly to the pad will bring out a clean line). -You can change the "Hot-Cells" around easily to open different programs; this is really nice and convenient. -You can adjust the size that corresponds to the screen, so moving the pen across the tablet can either move your mouse across the whole screen or move your mouse across about half of the screen. -But, it's not an awesome replacement for a mouse or a touchpad. I wouldn't use it to navigate around, just write and draw. I know, I know; basic stuff, but this is my first tablet and I would have liked to have known this (and maybe you might want to know it as well). The only negative point that might be worth mentioning is that it doesn't have a "touchpad" function as some of the Wacoms do, so you can't use your fingers to move around also. I would have never guessed this, but as you're working with the pad, it's something you want to have. Even though reviewers berated the touch function of the Wacom and other tablets, it's probably worth it if you're a more serious user and don't mind the extra bucks. That's why I gave this product a 4 and not a 5: for the price, ease of use, functionality, but missing touchpad function (that would have made this incredible). Now, my final comment is that I'm pretty happy with my purchase and if you're in a similar situation (need to draw or write easily), I'm pretty confident you will be too. Just my opinion and experience. I hope it helps :) Again, recommended.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very, very good for the money.
*by A***Z on March 11, 2010*

Alright, I waited a full month before doing this review because I wanted to make sure I was testing what the product really was, and not what it started off being. Overall, this Genius tablet has been working great and has been a great asset to my digital drawing. Also, for those who say that it doesn't work well with Windows 7 I ask: Have you downloaded the add-on off of [...]? If not, there's your problem. Now for some specifics. Sensitivity: This tablet is very good. You can set the sensitivity, and other features, quite easily. Sure, sometimes the sensitivity came off and on, but it eventually went away through weeks of tweaking the settings (if you have the same problem, wait for a week or two and it should go away). Now, the tablet's sensitivity is working just great! For those who say that the tablet has dead-spots, please skip over to my section on "Battery" because, unless it is truly the pressure sensitive area that has the problem, it is the pen's battery. Size: I don't know why people would want a bigger size, or a smaller size for that matter, because the 8"x6" tablet is a really good size to start on. In reality, the tablet is much bigger than I had anticipated. Pen: What can I say? It's a good pen. The buttons are good, the feel is good,and the pen tip is quite good as well. Now, if only they had a grip for that thing for when I draw for more than one hour at a time... that would be great. Battery: Now, I have read plenty of reviews that said that the batteries that came with the tablet were a bunch of bologna. I took that advice, got a battery from my parents' room, and put it in the pen. When I had installed the things in the CD AND the add-on from the [...] website, I tried out my new tablet. At first it worked like a charm. However, I noticed that in certain spots, the pen would stop working. I went over and over the same spot, but the computer would only register few movements in that general area. Once some time had passed, I could draw over that area easily, but another area would become "dead", or so I thought. It went like this for about two weeks, and then I finally changed the battery to, what else, the battery that came with the tablet. The "dead" spots disappeared altogether. In short, the batteries that come with that come with the tablet are not a sham. They're good, really good. In fact, I'm still using the first battery that came with the tablet. Installation: I heard to ignore the CD altogether when installing it, but I chose to ignore the advice instead. To tell you the truth, I'm glad I ignored the advice. After all, why would Genius send something that would just mess with the computer? Do they REALLY want a thousand people, per day, telling them that their CD does not do what it is intended to do? My advice is to pop in the CD, read through the already printed instructions, wait for the 10+ minutes of installation (depending on your computer RAM, I think), and download the add-on from [...] for your specific operating system (OS). After that, if you have the same problem with sensitivity that I had, you should check the settings with the tablet often in case they change unexpectedly. Other than that, your tablet, after you check the battery on the pen, will be working well. Overall, this tablet is great. The ONLY thing that I have against this tablet is that it is too big for my work area. That, however, is something that applies only to me. Do your own measurements and it should become clear if you have enough space for this. Then again, you can clear area. I hope my review will help some of you thinking about buying this tablet and some of you who are having these temporary problems with the tablet. Thank you for reading, Abdiel

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