which graphics tablet?

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What about a light pen?
http://www.ftgdata.com/pricing/lightpensprices.html#fx422

Or turn your monitor into a touch-screen :
http://www.3m.com/US/electronics_mfg/touch_systems/Products/Capacitive/ClearTekII.jhtml

Anybody used anything like this recently? How does it compare? I've thought about getting a standard graphics tablet like a Wacom, but you've still got the old problem of 'I can't actually see what I'm drawing where I'm drawing it. The ultimate solution is obviously Wacoms convergence of the 2 :
http://www.wacom4u.co.uk/product.html?ItemID=620
but that's WAAAY out of my price range ATM

EDIT : Here's some more :
http://www.touchscreens.com/products-addon.html

http://www.magictouch.com/addon.html

http://www.screendirect.com/page/ICPE/CTGY/PCLP