GRETA Portable GSM Fax and Printer

Fax machines have been left quietly in the background but for the business users, it is still pretty much handy. And now it has just become more flexible thanks to the GRETA Portable GSM fax and printer which can now send and receive fax messages using mobile phones. It can also be a printer and scanner ...

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Nose Scanner Verification Coming Soon?

There may yet be a new way to help improve security access to combat identity theft as a Nose Scanner Verification is said to be on the works. We have seen the introduction of varied ways to gain access like eye scanning and thumb prints and this new technology will certainly be a welcome addition ...

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Short Film Made Entirely from a Scanner

Who says scanners are being forgotten in the world of creativity and image acquisition? With some creativity and common sense, you can produce a short film with it if you really try. Don’t believe me? Well just take a look at the video below. Titled Memoirs of a Scanner, Mindfruit Films certainly made an impressive ...

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Hovercam Scanners Set To Replace Flatbed Scanners

Pathway Innovations and Technologies unveil a USB-powered Hovercam Scanner which should take the place of the usual flatbed scanners we use to scan books and documents. With the Hovercam Scanner, snapshots of documents placed beneath the lens are taken in seconds. The Hovercam Scanner takes up less space than traditional flatbed scanners. They come in ...

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Hammacher Schlemmer Digital Photo Frame Comes with Built-in Scanner

Digital photo frames would normally show off pictures that were saved in portable storage devices. But thanks to Hammacher Schlemmer, their digital frame can also scan actual pictures for you, made possible by its built-in scanner feature. With one press of a button, you can scan those old pics into 300 dpi jpeg images which ...

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GradeCam Online Scanner Launched

Here is a handy online tool that should help teachers evaluate their students better. GradeCam announces its new online scanner version which should help teachers and instructors to check out the progress of their students. A paper-based test is scanned by a document or web camera which is then compressed and sent over to the ...

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3D Scanner Made of a Simple Webcam?

I don’t know how many times you’ll actually need a 3D scanner but just in case you do, I have good news for you. It looks that there’s a piece of software that can turn a webcam into a 3D scanner. The software you should be looking for is called ProFORMA which stands for Probabilistic ...

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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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Rollei presents new Photo Scanners

P-S 100 is the codename of the new photo scanner presented by Rollei, its main purpose is to scan all those old-school photos that measure 13x18cm, and end up with a 5-megapixel digital document with a resolution of 5184x3360 pixels. This model will cost approximately $215. The other model released by Rollei is the DiaFilmScanner, which ...

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Plustek OpticBook A300 Flatbed Scanner

Plustek unveils a new member for their OpticBook family of scanners with the A300. This new scanner is intended to help in the scanning of books or any bound material which many find hard to scan on the standard scanners in the market today. This new scanner is capable of scanning 12 x 17-inch A3 ...

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