Every once and awhile I have to get dressed up for a wedding or something. And it’s kind of fun, but it always reminds me that I’m just not fancy on the inside. No matter how decked out I am I’m still a jeans and a tshirt person deep down. But hopefully that’s not true of luxury tech products that people spend a lot of money on. They should be just as shiny and fabulous on the inside. Right? LuxInside is trying to expose what’s really going on inside the fanciest purchases.
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Nakabayashi Co, a Japanese company specialized in sourcing and reselling product from around the world in Japan announced last week the IPScan for iOS, a compact and portable scanner for your beloved iPhone or iPad. In just 331x110x98mm and for 740g, the IPSCan is a compact 300/600Dpi scanner that works as an iPhone/iPad doc and that will immediately scan an A4 document in to a nice JPEG file from the comfort of your iOS device. Only compatible with iOS 6 Devices, the IPSCan also require a dedicated application in order to work, iSCan Pro, that seems to be offered for free to any future IPScan buyers.
Announced at around 25,000 Yen the IPScan (PRN-A01) will be available across Japan within the end of this month (July).
High-speed, high-resolution scanner from Canon – the CanoScan 9000F Mark II Color Image Scanner (6218B002). Professional film scanning quality, with 9600 x 9600 maximum color dpi, it produces extremely fine detail in both documents and photographs. Photos, negatives, even 35mm film can be high-speed scanned. 48-bit color depth yields 281 trillion colors.
It features Canon’s “Super Toric Lens”, delivering pin-sharp scans from edge-to-edge and bright, low-noise images. …
I firmly believe in digital formats, and as such, I actually haven’t had a TV in a decade. I’ve had plenty of high-resolution computer monitors though, and I guess they will be great to read all of the National Geographic issues that have been printed from 1888 through 2009.
That’s over 120 years of magazines on a 160 GB drive. Now that’s efficient, because I can’t see anyone dragging crates and crates of print magazines anywhere these days. The scans even include the ads. That must be interesting as well, especially if you go back to the early years. There’s a bonus DVD with some guides, and how the issues were created.
That HD doesn’t come cheap though. You’ll have to spend $199.95 at the National Geographic store in order to get it with all of the goodies. There’s also no word on when it will be updated to include content from the last three years.
[via Ubergizmo]
Having drunk people in a crowd or at a public place is usually not be a good idea. While not everyone indulges in brawls when drunk, a crowd of sober persons is definitely lot more preferable. However, it is very hard to individually check out the sobriety of every person in places thronging with people, for instance at train stations.
To solve this problem, researchers at University of Patras are working on developing a new software that can discern whether or not a person is drunk simply through a face-scan. The software makes use of two key calculations which lets it make a reasonably accurate guess. (more…)
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: New software removes “naked” body scans (airport security), 50-gigapixel camera part of DARPA’s AWARE program,
While you can take plenty of notes with laptops and tablets, it’s still convenient to be able to note stuff down in a notebook with a pen. If you’ve ever wanted to easily digitize everything that you jot down, take a look at the Evernote Moleskine Smart Notebook. It’s been designed so that you can easily transfer it to your smartphone.
The Evernote Moleskine Smart Notebook works in tandem with the Evernote app and it allows you, once you’ve snapped a photo of your notes, to quickly digitize them. This means that the text and notes can be searched through easily. The paper is specially formatted for use with the app to ensure the best quality scans, and you can tag pages and passages with Smart Stickers and arrows. It’s definitely an interesting way to minimize your footprint, if you don’t want to lug your laptop to class when taking notes (or doodling.)
While it won’t replace your computer or tablet it should allow you to be more effective with your notetaking. It’s available for pre-order from Evernote for $24.95.
[via Uncrate]
In the not-too-distant future, technology might let you check out for your purchases without any need to scan tags, enter prices, or even read RFID tags. Thanks to visual recognition technology, items being purchased could be automatically identified just by the way they look.
A trial is underway at a bakery in Tokyo using Brain Corporation’s object recognition technology to automatically ring up items for purchase just by setting them onto a tray. A camera grabs an image of the items, and checks a database to match up the baked goods with their pricing. It works surprisingly well handling subtle variants of the same item – like 2 different loaves of bread. It’s a cool idea, and seems to work quite well in this particular application.
While I like the general concept, I could see problems with the system if you start dealing with multiple items that look the same on the outside, but have different insides (i.e. different memory configurations on an iPhone, or in this case a cherry croissant vs. a chocolate one.) Still, for items which can be identified by color, size and shape, it’s definitely got potential.
[via DigInfo TV]
Within the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will instantly know everything about your body, clothes, and luggage with a new laser-based molecular scanner fired from 164 feet (50 meters) away. From traces of drugs or gun powder on your clothes to what you had for breakfast to the adrenaline level in your body—agents will be able to get any information they want without even touching you. More »
If you regularly snap pages of hardcopy text on your smartphone for perusing later, then an Android app being developed by Fujifilm may just tick your literary boxes. Called GT-Layout, it automatically carves up a photo containing text so that each character becomes a separate image. These sub-images can then be reformatted with line breaks to fit your screen area and preferred level of zoom — so you don’t have to pinch and pan so much and there’s no need for OCR. Want to try it? Then you’ll have to wait. GT-Layout is reportedly coming in an update to Fujifilm’s Dropbox client, GT-Document Lite, but there’s no sign of it appearing there just yet.
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For the first time, scientists have managed to use fMRI scans of a human to control the movements of a robot body. The link between man and machine allowed the researchers to control a robot in France from a brain scanner in Israel. More »
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