wow, being in graphics I forget that some tools aren't as common as one might believe... A wacom is digitizing tablet, generally used to draw images directly into a paint or image editing program. If you draw... and you do art on a computer, you owe it to youself to get such a tablet.
https://www.wacom.com/index2.cfm
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