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The older we get, the more paperwork we need to keep track of. For starters, we do have plenty of receipts throughout the month considering the number of purchases that we make, and apart from writing those down, you can always scan them for digital storage so that you are able to free up more space from boxes at home or at the office. The Doxie One personal scanner intends to fill this niche, bringing you one step closer to a paperless world for just $149 a pop. It will ship later this November, making it ideal as a Christmas present, where the Doxie One is future forward as it boasts of Apple Lightning and 30-pin SD accessories, in addition to having a Doxie app for Mac + PC with Dropbox & Evernote cloud integration, ABBYY OCR technology, and PDF delivery via iMessage.

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There are a lot of mobile professionals in a number of different industries that could benefit from having a mobile document scanner. Genius has announced a new portable wireless scanner specifically made with the on the go professional in mind called the Podpad. The scanner is intended to be used for creating digital copies of time sensitive documents that can be sent instantly over the Internet.

The scanner pairs with a Podpad app on the smartphone. The app allows recently scanned documents to be sent directly to the phone in PDF format via Bluetooth. Once those documents are on the mobile phone, the mobile data connection can be used to send the PDF document anywhere it needs to go.

The scanner can scan six documents per minute at sizes up to 8.5-inches by 14-inches. The scanner also tracks the date, time, location, customer, document ID, and employee for each document scanned and sent. The tracking feature is particularly important for businesses with multiple workers who each scanned documents.

The scanner comes with a DC power adapter for use in the car and a USB adapter for use in the home. The scanner can also be connected to your computer using the USB cable. The Podpad Wireless Document Scanner is available right now for $219.

Genius Podpad portable scanner is aimed at mobile pros is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Anyone who’s hopped on a flight at a major airport, or even some land-based transit, knows the agonizing wait that certain agencies demand while they scan for explosives and check boarding passes. Hitachi is working with Nippon Signal and the University of Yamanachi to build a new boarding gate that hopefully kills those two security birds with one stone. As you’re swiping your boarding pass (or smartphone), the machine also scans it for particle-sized traces of explosive materials and sends the all-clear or no-go in less than two seconds. If all goes well, the system could check up to 1,200 passengers every hour at a single gate — a rate quick enough to prevent a logjam at even the busiest terminals. Our chief reservations surround its scope. Hitachi has earned enough trust to get trial installations at Narita International Airport and a Tokyo subway station this coming spring, but we have a hunch that some airport officials would demand a more thorough screening, no matter how much it’s actually needed.

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Earlier this year, we found out that Apple had purchased AuthenTec, a company that provides fingerprint scanning technology to many other companies around the world. At the time, it wasn’t clear what Apple was planning to do with AuthenTec, and while its intentions are still unknown for the most part, it seems that Apple isn’t willing to let others in on AuthenTec’s products. A report from Korean site ETNews claims that AuthenTec will cut off all non-Apple customers sometime next year, which could spell trouble for some of AuthenTec’s biggest customers.

That group includes companies like Samsung, HP, Lenovo, and Dell. Apparently, these companies are in panic mode after finding out that AuthenTec will pull the plug on their service in 2013, and it’s easy to see why. After all, it’s not hard to imagine why Apple wanted AuthenTec – it’s one of the best when it comes to fingerprint scanning tech, so you can bet that the company’s services will be sorely missed when it begins making products exclusively for Apple next year.

Keep in mind that this is only a rumor at this point, but it wouldn’t surprise us in the least to hear that Apple wants AuthenTec all to itself. Using AuthenTec’s technology to make iDevices and Macs more secure seemed like a no-brainer from the moment the deal was announced, and having devices that are secured by a user’s fingerprint would do a lot to make Apple’s products stand out from the competition. Hearing that, there isn’t any question why Apple isn’t willing to let other companies take advantage of AuthenTec’s products and services.

There’s no specific cut off date for AuthenTec’s other customers mentioned, but with that vague 2013 date, it seems that Apple will want to cut out the competition ahead of the release of the next iPhone. Perhaps the iPhone 6 (or whatever it’s called) will be secured by fingerprints? Nothing is sure at the moment, but we’re expecting to find out more about Apple’s plans for AuthenTec soon. Stay tuned.

[via Electronista]

AuthenTec to reportedly give non-Apple customers the boot next year is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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You know what they say about keeping track of one’s finances – you have got to start by listing down every single cent that you have spent for that particular day, and do so for the entire month before you are able to better get an idea of just where all of your money has gone to (mostly down the drain or at the local pub, of course, for those of us who have poor financial acumen). Needless to say, if you were to do so consistently for a few months in a row, the results would be more accurate as to the breakdown of your finances. Some of us prefer to take the shortcut and write down whatever we have spent for the day at the end of the day, but as I personally found out, this was not the way to go since I tend to lose my receipts, not to mention a poor memory that made me forget just how much I spent and where. Enter the Doxie Go portable scanner that, as its name suggests, will be able to get the job done wherever you are.

You can saw that the Doxie Go is ideal for folks who live out of a suitcase. After all, it is small enough to be packed into any notebook bag without missing a beat, and even more ideal would be the cordless DNA that was built into the Doxie Go. One drawback would be the reliance on battery power, but I will address that particular issue later on. Do bear in mind that cordless does not equal to wireless capability (as that would further drain its battery), but what you can do is this – first you scan whatever receipts or documents you have for the day with the Doxie Go, and before you retire for the night, you can always use the included USB cable to transfer all your day’s scans from the Doxie Go to your computer itself.

So far, I have tried to scan up to a century’s worth of pages, but right before I hit that magical number (somewhere in the early nineties, I lost count due to the lack of caffeine in my system), the Doxie Go’s battery gave up the ghost. As for the internal memory of the Doxie Go (512MB), it is touted to carry up to 550-plus document pages, but even that depends on the kind of content which you scan.

Of course, if you truly want to take the wireless data transfer route, you can use an Eye-Fi SD memory card to not only store data, but create a wireless connection to a compatible computer or notebook. If the internal memory is not enough, you can always scan directly to the SD memory card or USB flash drive.

Default scanning resolution stands at 300 dpi, although there is the option to scan your document at 600 dpi through a single tap of the power button. Adjusting the documents can be done manually if you find the (often correct) auto adjust work out of whack. The instant PDF button also makes plenty of sense, as it saves you the trouble of saving (excuse me for the lack of a better word) your document again into the PDF format. Do it once, do it right, I say.

For $199 a pop, I would recommend this if you do not have any kind of heavy duty scanning, and it is perfect if you want to keep track of receipts. Otherwise, if you have far more documents to scan and are seated behind the desk at all times, I would suggest getting a dedicated scanner instead.

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