DocuScan portable scanner

We have covered some interesting portable scanners like the Plustek Mobile Office D428 and the Creaform EXAscan Handheld, and now the DocuScan. All you have to do is feed in whatever photos, articles, or documents, and they will be archived in a JPEG format at 300 DPI resolution. It even has a 2.4-inch ...

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Hammacher Schlemmer presents a Previewing Full Page Portable Scanner

Hammacher Schlemmer, makers of the SkyPix Handheld Scanner, have created this "Only Previewing Full Page Portable Scanner". Unlike other handheld scanners, which are essentially a quick pass over your subject and "you get what you get", this is a little more. This has a 2.4 inch color LCD that you can see before ...

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BulletScan Launches A Portable Scanner

If you're a professional career worker who's currently in need of a scanner while running errands, then you should check out the M40 Portable Scanner from BulletScan. This device can color documents up to 4 inch by 8 inch in size in only 7 seconds without the need for a computer. Furthermore, the ...

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Doxie portable scanner

Portable scanners are probably going to be big as we are becoming dependent on transferring hard copies to digital formats on the go. This is the Doxie, which it debuted at CES 2010, and it can create scans and can scan photos straight to Google Docs, Flickr, and Evernote. It is very simple ...

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Veho Colorbright Slide and Negative Scanner

Put those old films to use once again by making use of the Veho Colorbright slide and negative scanner. This portable scanner can scan old 110m and 35mm negatives and then transfer them to your MAC or PC through a USB connection. You can bank on bright and clear images thanks to its Colorbright technology which ...

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Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300

Fujitsu has a way of making a scanner far more interesting with the ScanSnap S1300. It is portable enough to fit in a briefcase, and has some other unique features. For example, it can do direct to PDF scanning in addition to scanning directly to Excel spreadsheets. It also has automatic paper ...

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VuPoint PDS-ST410-VP Magic Wand Portable Scanner

It looks like a wand that should be useful for magicians but in reality, the VuPoint PDS-ST410-VP Magic Wand is really a portable scanner in disguise. It can scan A4 pages with a 600x600 resolution and takes only 28 seconds to produce scanned documents in full color and 4 seconds in black and white. The ...

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OLED Powered Pocket Sized Scanner

Here is a pocket sized concept scanner that should click. The notable portion of this concept design by Ashish Chaudhary would have to be the OLED displays located at the upper and bottom layers for illumination purposes. It also has a central layer that functions with capacitive and photo sensors that will perform the data ...

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The Digipen X-Series–Who Would Ever Want This?

I know it's kind of strange to talk about a scanner that, clearly, no one in their right mind would ever want to buy, but I happen to be one of those people who thinks that any critic has two viable jobs: one is, as they put in the movie Ratatouille, in defense of the ...

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