Thursday, January 17, 2013 - 8:05pm
Lomography is making the film conversion process easy with a portable film scanner that converts 35mm film into digital photos using a smartphone.
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Friday, August 31, 2012 - 3:41pm
Berlin, Germany — Amidst the serious 4K and OLED HDTVs and myriad Windows 8 gear, here at the IFA electronics show which officially starts today many a goofy product can be found. Such as, a mouse that's also a scanner...
Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 4:48am
Supermarket bar code scanners might have seemed really high tech back in 1979, but by now we're all pretty familiar with their limitations. So a new type of scanner takes a different approach, by actually recognizing the object itself, rather than scanning the bar code.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 9:01am
Computer mice come in a zillion different shapes and sizes, but it's getting really ridiculous. First a calculator and scale get shoved into a mouse and now LG stuffs a scanner into one? How on earth does that even fit in there?
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 - 6:48am
There's been a lot about the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) full body scanners at U.S. airports in the news — the ones capable of seeing your private bits and pieces. Of course, for every problem there's a product: special "underwear" that protects you from the gaze of pervy TSA officers.
Thursday, November 4, 2010 - 7:32am
All that steampunk stuff is so childish compared to this Soviet photo editing tool from 1987. It's pure analogue goodness. This video reminds us of a time before Photoshop became mainstream — it makes us really miss the imaginative minds of yesteryear.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 9:52am
Scanning an entire book is tedious work. It usually involves scanning a page at a time, and it's serious time-consuming. But this new scanner out of the University of Tokyo speeds that process up significantly thanks to a 500fps camera.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 11:07am
Crossing the great divide between printed documents and the digital world just got easier with Doxie, a 600dpi scanner smart enough to rotate, crop, and then send digital versions of those paper docs and pics directly to the cloud. Now...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 8:00pm
I've never needed to scan a document or photo while sitting in a plane seat, but if you ever have, there's a gadget for that. The unfortunately named DocuPen is a portable scanner made by PlanOn, about the size of...
Friday, August 14, 2009 - 2:01am
Designed by Jinsu Park, the Color Picker is a brilliant concept for anyone with an artistic bent. Using a scanner, it detects the exact shade of anything you point it at before mixing the inks from a RGB cartridge to...
