The Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet is an instrument that allows the user to draw or paint using a stylus or their very fingers or to move objects around on their computer, click on things, open things. Essentially it is a mouse on crack. I am trying out mine for the first time and I have to say that drawing with it seems to be a fairly easy task. Sketching around and I've come up with this basic drawing of Star Sapphire:

While I haven't worked out all of the kinks, I'm satisfied that I'm well on my way to being "fluent".
Cost: 3 of 5 Stars
Performance: 4 of 5 Stars
In all, something I can waste a lot of time creatively with.