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 new, to point people toward those strange and unusual items of great import that they may not know about, but also, in direct defiance of Ratatouille, to point out things that people should probably stay far away from and not waste their hard earned money on.

And the Digipen X-Series definitely falls into that category.

Okay, sure, it’s a 600 dpi scanner, and that’s pretty good, plus it’s got sixty four gigs of onboard memory and works with microSD cards.  And that’s GREAT.  But this is, at its base, a pen-sized scanner that costs almost three hundred and seventy bucks.

The chances of you losing this thing in your desk clutter are pretty good, or worse, in the cushions of your couch or the like.  It LOOKS like a pen, for crying out loud.  And how many mobile applications really require a scanner that can’t be done by a far less expensive portable scanner or even a digital camera?  This just isn’t a good idea as far as I can see.

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