When you look at them in hospitals, CT (Computer Tomography) scanners look like devices from Star Trek’s Enterprise. When you look at them without their smooth futuristic covers on, they look like tired engine parts from the Battlestar Galactica. More »
How many of you out there actually use a scanner, raise your hands? Well, scanners are useful for stashing important documents and immortalizing them in the digital format, as you have more or less run out of space to store those physical papers. Here is one unique scanner that doubles up as an iPad dock as well – the £149.99 DOCS2GO Scanner for iPad. Coming in a sleek form factor, the DOCS2GO Scanner for iPad will be able to scan documents and photos amongst others, where all you need to do is dock your iPad in the standard 30-pin connector, send those documents that you want to be scanned through the scanner, and see them appear on your iPad’s display, as though there was a bunch of garden gnomes hiding in your iPad to perform such magic.
Definitely a whole lot more enticing to look at than the noisy flatbed scanner, the DOCS2GO Scanner for iPad will run off juice from your iPad’s 10W power adaptor. It is a snap to tote around in your backpack whenever you travel, and it has just strengthened the case for tablets being a viable portable workstation for folks who work in a mobile environment.
[ DOCS2GO Scanner for iPad copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
So sorry, you are not going to turn into a mutant anytime soon after undergoing a round with this cancer scanner which merges both PET (Positron Emission Tomography)and MRI into a single device, resulting in a new kind of medical technology that boasts of improved image quality and less radiation, thanks to the efforts of particle physicists at the University in Oslo . At the moment, most cancer examinations involve high levels of radiation, but this latest merged technology has been specially created to bring the best of both worlds, while reducing the amount of radiation that your body is bombarded with – which could be detrimental to your health in the long run. (more…)
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: IRIScan Anywhere 3 offers scanning capability just about anywhere, Mobile fingerprint scanners see action by police force,
I have read many times that keeping track of my expenses is always a good idea – and that means writing down exactly where every single penny went. Well, that is all nice and good, but it becomes a huge headache when there are so many receipts to get hold of and store away safely somewhere. Don’t you think that life would be a whole lot easier if you could just scan those receipts once and for all? This is where I am going with the $199 IRIScan Anywhere 3.
Being a battery‐powered and cordless portable scanner certainly has its advantages – it is able to let you capture paper documents, receipts, photos and more without having to have a computer in the vicinity. On a full charge, it is able to scan up to a 100 full letter sized pages, regardless of whether it is in color or black and white. Being extremely intuitive to use, the IRIScan Anywhere 3 will let you zip through a sheet of paper in the scanner, where the scanned file will then be saved on the built‐in memory (up to 512MB), although there are two other options available – to send those saved files over to an SD memory card or to a standard USB flash drive. The IRIScan Anywhere 3 will be compatible with both Macs and PCs, where it will be bundled with the Readiris Pro 14 and Cardiris Pro 5 apps.
[ IRIScan Anywhere 3 helps you get your portable scanning action on copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
Portable scanners aren’t quite the novelty they used to be, that much is true. But they’re no less impressive or useful. The latest IRIScan, the Anywhere 3, follows a long tradition of tiny, wireless document and photo scanners with rechargable batteries. It’s capable of saving your files to its internal storage, an SD card or even a standard USB thumbdrive. At $199 the IRIScan Anywhere 3 isn’t any cheaper than its competitors and, as you can see from the photo above, it’s certainly not the smallest portable scanner. But, it does come with some free apps (Readiris Pro and Cardiris Pro) that let you import contact info from business cards into Outlook or Lotus and turn your scanned docs into editable files through OCR. For more check out the PR after the break.
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I.R.I.S. has just announced that they will be offering their latest portable scanning device – the IRIScan Anywhere 3, which will come in the form of a cordless portable scanner that will obviously be powered by an internal battery. With the IRIScan Anywhere 3, you are able to put on record various items that tend to go missing when you need them during the most crucial moments, such as paper documents, receipts, photos and others – sans the need for a computer, of course. It is said that the IRIScan Anywhere 3 is a snap to use, where a sheet of paper will zip through the scanner in a jiffy, where the scanned image is then saved on the built‐in memory, although you can always opt to have it saved onto an SD memory card.
Being relatively small and lightweight, it is a snap to tote around, and the IRIScan Anywhere 3 is also an efficient worker, scanning half a dozen pages per minute in black/white or color with 600 and 300 dpi scanning resolutions. On battery mode, it is capable of saving up to 100 letter sized documents before requiring a recharge. The asking price for the IRIScan Anywhere 3? $199 a pop.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: IRIScan Book 2 lets you do books, documents, mags and photos sans a computer, Mobile fingerprint scanners see action by police force,
Now here is a scanner that you might want to consider getting if you do happen to be a scanning freak. After all, scanning a particular page in a magazine or book for its information is far more useful compared to taking a photograph with your smartphone’s camera, never mind the fact that smartphone cameras have come a long, long way since a few years ago.
With the IRIScan Book 2, you are able to scan books, documents, magazines and photos regardless of the time or where you are – and this is all achieved without the need for a computer in the vicinity. Let us take a closer look at how the IRIScan Book 2 works in everyday life right after the jump, shall we not?
The IRIScan Book 2 will also come with the relevant apps to support its scanning ability, and I must say that on paper, the Readiris 14 software does seem to be very impressive. After all, it is capable of transforming scans and PDFs into editable and searchable digital text which can later be uploaded over to the Cloud at your convenience.
According to Jean-Marc Fontaine; Director of Sales and Operations, Americas at I.R.I.S., “Readiris 14 boosts productivity and saves time, setting the standard for portable scanning on the market today in terms of speed and accuracy. Whether you are a student, businessman or road warrior, Readiris is a powerful tool when paired with any scanner, especially one of our portable scanners like the IRIScan Book 2.”
The IRIScan Book 2 is highly portable, since it is battery-powered, there is no need for any pesky power cables for you to carry around. All scanned pages will be sent straight to a microSD memory card, where the IRIScan Book 2 will get the job done in black/white or color with 600 and 300 dpi scanning resolutions. Even better is this – you do not need to deal with any pesky driver installations at all, where all you need to do is connect the scanner with the included USB cable or insert the microSD memory card into the computer, and you are good to go.
The IRIScan Book 2 will come in 2 flavors – the 2 AA battery-powered version which lasts for up to 200 page scans retails for $99, while the more expensive IRIScan Book 2 Executive at $129 has a built in rechargeable battery, and it can send scans via Bluetooth to a smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop.
[ IRIScan Book 2 makes document and book scanning a cinch copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
Do you have plenty of old negatives that you wish you could preserve, but have absolutely no idea on where you are to start? Good thing that modern day technology is able to help you out, and this time around, we have the folks over at Firebox deliver the £39.99 iPICS2GO Negative to iPhone Scanner. Do you still remember the days when you were extremely young, and cameras were not digital but actually used this thing called film? Yes, those days, you cannot preview your captured photos on the spot – but rather, you will need to head to the dark room and develop those negatives from the camera.
If you happen to own the iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S, you can use the iPICS2GO Negative to iPhone Scanner to convert all of your photographs, their slides and respective negatives directly to your mobile device. Once the conversion process is complete, just send them straight over to your mobile device, where you can also edit, save, and share them in the blink of an eye. The iPICS2GO Negative to iPhone Scanner is powered by a quartet of AA batteries, making you hark back to the days when your favorite portable console was a Nintendo Game Boy.
[ iPICS2GO Negative to iPhone Scanner copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
I’ve had a love affair with Neat scanners for a while now and the company has just updated their roster with two new cloud offerings, the aptly-named NeatCloud and a mobile scanning system called NeatMobile.
For those not in the know, Neat is essentially a scanner for receipts, documents, and business cards. It’s surprisingly fast and efficient and has allowed me, personally, to reduce my paper load considerably. NeatCloud is a fairly simple concept. It’s basically a cloud backup service for Neat documents. The service is a lot like Evernote in that it allows you to save documents via email and grab information on the fly.
NeatMobile is a bit more interesting. Like the Neat scanner, NeatMobile lets you take photos of documents and upload them for instantaneous OCR. If you’re handling a lot of receipts, for example, you can grab shots and send them to the cloud as soon as you get them, rather than running a batch when you get back to the office. Both services offer improved search and filing thanks to server-side algorithms.
Pricing plans range from $5.99 to $24.99 a month. $6 gets you NeatCloud while the other two plans give you access to NeatMobile.
While it will never beat the sound of a few hundred business cards thunking through a Neat scanner, these improvements put Neat in a more interesting position vis a vis the cloud.
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