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The iOS-friendly Doxie Go puts paid to pesky paper

The new Doxie Go is about as far from old, creaking desktop scanners as a modern digicam is from a Box Brownie. The self-contained scanner has its own memory and rechargeable battery, performs OCR on your documents and stores them ready to be synced later to a computer, the Internet (Evernote) or even your iPad and iPhone. In short, it’s an ideal way to finally ditch boring old paper from your life.

The specs: Doxie Go will scan at 600dpi, and has space for 600 pages or 2400 photos, weighs 14 ounces (400 grams) and can make 100 scans on a charge. 300 dpi color documents take eight seconds and 300 dpi and 4×6-inch photos take five seconds.

Once done, you can hook up to a Mac or PC (you can also scan straight into a computer via USB, like a regular scanner), or transfer direct to an iPhone or iPad with the optional ($40) iPhone Sync Kit. iPad users can skip this expense by just pulling the SD card out and slotting it into the camera connection kit, which is multi-use and costs $10 less.

And we’re done. Now we can print from and scan to phones and tablets. Hell, Hamrick software has just released VueScan Mobile, an app that lets you use almost any wireless scanner you already own with your iPad. If only there was a way to back up an iPhone or iPad to a plain USB hard drive, then I might be completely done with computers.

The Doxie Go is ready for pre-order and will ship at the end of November. It costs $200.

Doxie Go product page [Doxie]

See Also:

• Portable Scanner Doxie Adds some Zing to Scanning
• Doxie Scanner Sends and Shares
• Five Useless Gadgets You Should Throw in the Trash Right Now …

Just two months to go, and gamers of the Sony persuasion can get their thumbs-on the PS Vita. While we were getting comfy with the available list of this PSP successor’s dos and don’ts, out comes further info to rain on our anticipated PlayStation Suite parade. According to a report from ASCII, game downloads over 3G connections will be limited to a max of 20MB. What does that mean for you, prospective buyer? Well, kiss that 500 – 600 strong library of PSP titles goodbye, and say hello to a catalog of minis. Sure, you could always hook up to some decent WiFi to purchase and play those old favorites uninterrupted, but that kind of defeats this portable’s on-the-go design. Rest assured, this download cap could still change before the handheld launches in the US and UK. And anyway, you didn’t think you were going to get far on that three to five hour charge, now did you?

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It may not be the first console we’ve seen modded and squeezed into portable clothing, but we’ve got to admire the sheer pluck of cramming all the GameCube’s goodnesss into PSP hardware. Modder Ashen, also responsible for the stockier GameCube Fusion, has managed just that, with some heavy-duty adjustments and modifications. The Fusion Micro is a fair bit chunkier than the original PSP, mainly due to the fan and heat sink behind all that busy hardware. Other modifications include an extra analog stick on the right to mimic the GameCube controller and two card slots for games and emulation. Despite this impressive engineering, however, it won’t stand up to extensive plays; this unholy union of Nintendo and Sony can only squeeze out about two hours of gaming from its 5000mAh battery. Click on after the break to see Zelda in action, alongside a full break-down of the controls and modifications.

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When it comes to refrigerating beer and grilling burgers, you’re on your own. If you’re looking for satellite television in the back of your truck before the game (pictured), on the other hand, Dish Network’s Tailgater can certainly help. First hinted at back in May, the ten pound box automatically locates satellite positions, offering up HD content on the go for owners of Dish’s ViP 211k HD receiver. The box runs $350 and is apparently rather easy to set up, making it a pretty enticing option for those who absolutely need to watch a sporting event in the parking lot while waiting to get into a sporting event. Infomercially video after the break.

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The price of the Nintendo 3DS in the US is dropping precipitously August 12th from $249 to $169, with other regions getting a similar price break in their respective currency. Are you one of the 830,000~ US gamers that have already shelled out? Don’t be too disappointed, the thank you gift for gamers that have logged into the eShop at least once before the price cut will be 10 free NES virtual console games September 1st, plus 10 more Game Boy Advance virtual console games — that Nintendo is not planning on releasing to the general public — before the end of the year. Left holding the bag for all this desperation generosity, are the company’s investors. While pressure from the upcoming Vita is surely playing a part, Nintendo plans to sell 16 million 3DS units in the financial year, but still slashed its financial projections for the year from ¥110 billion to just ¥20 billion. Check out the financial PDFs at the source links below while you decide if 10 potentially-exclusive GBA games are worth paying $80 extra for.

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