I'm sure that you all have used night vision to see in the dark at some point in time. As we have learned from certain videos by Paris Hilton, the final product tends to be very green. Fortunately, the Nanosystem Research Division of AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Japan) ...
I don't know if we are looking at a future where television watches you, but Oki Electric Industry in Japan has come up a special sensor to determine the age and gender of a person that is front of the television. The purpose of the sensor is to create selective advertising. So if ...
While many photography enthusiasts, both professional and amateur, are making the shift towards digital cameras this hasn't ben true forever. Quite obviously, there is a whole slew of film laying around that has not yet been converted to some sort of digital media. Luckily, companies like Praktica offer products like their recently unveild DS-66 film scanner. This scanner ...
We just covered the telepresence robots from Anybots not long ago, and how it is being used to help a sick student attend school. Here's another interesting robot with a camera, the TiaLinx Cougar20-H surveillance robot. It is definitely something that you don't want on your tail. The robot has an RF array ...
Apparently, Macworld 2011 is happening this weekend, and Fujitsu will be there. They will be also be showcasing their ScanSnap S1100. What is a ScanSnap? We have reported on it before. It is an ultra-portable scanner that weighs about 12 ounces, and it is powered by a single USB cable. ...
I don't know if this is the first of its kind, but the LG LSM-100 mouse has a scanner on the bottom. Yes, it actually has the ability to scan a small area quickly and continuously while keeping track of the mouse's movement to boot. I'm not certain how good the resolution is, ...
Some of you might remember when we discussed the portable Hovercam that we discussed last week at CES, and this is something similar: the Ion Book Saver. The Book Saver is what its title implies, a scanner for books. As you can see, the cradle holds the book in place while a camera ...
While I was attending CES 2011 this year, I passed by VuPoint Solutions to see what they were up to this year. This is the same company that makes the Digital Photo Converter and the FC-C520-VP Digital Film and Slide Scanner. It turns out they have some nifty things like the Photo Cube ...
About one year ago, we covered the Hovercam. They made an appearance at CES 2011 in order to show off their new "Mini" Office Camera. If you are not familiar with Hovercam, they make these scanners that don't take up a lot of desktop real estate like regular cameras. They have a ...
Just when you think that Fujitsu was done with camera with the HS20EXR and the FinePix XP30, now they have the ScanSnap S1100 just in time for CES 2011. The ScanSnap is deemed the "world's smallest", and it weighs very little at 123 ounces. It plays well with the PC and Mac, and ...
