With the new Star Trek movie finally out, fans are showing their geeky colors a bit more proudly.  Not that they were ever really hidden to begin with, but now manufacturers are coming out with new fun gear.  For those that like to run around in their blue pajamas costumes and try to look as [...]

I believe that we have reported on KDDI products before, and this particular one is from the Research and Development department. In other words, it is still a concept, and have no idea when this will be released.
So what is this fine new thing in development? A “gesture-based authentication system” that allows [...]

Canon’s well known for its Pixma range, and the latest iteration from them would be the network-ready Office All-In-One Pixma MX860. This model aims to bring the ultimate at an affordable price tag, featuring Canon’s premium print engine, auto duplex scan and copy functions, a high speed Auto Document Feeder (ADF) of up to 35 [...]

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Adding to our growing fascination with text scanners comes a device that promises to help out researchers looking to collate a lot of data for reports. This small, handheld scanner is called the Dixau from Korean company Unichal. This digital text scanner uses a camera to literally read along with its reader, not [...]

If you’ve ever tried to scan a book, chances are you were severely disappointed. Sure, you’ll get most of the page, but you’ll also lose those words that make the sentences seem like a 6 year old wrote them, and not to mention all the black sides on the paper. . . I know [...]

This is quite a cool idea. It’s a tiny portable scanner for scanning in business cards into your computer. I collect a dozen or so business cards on every trip, all of which end up in a mess on my top draw, ordered in a sort of last-in first-out filing system. I did a search [...]

This is another gadget for all you secret agents out their, a scanner disguised as a pen, the DocuPen.
The Planon DocuPen RC800 is a pen scanner with a difference, instead of having the scanning camera at the tip of the pen, the DocuPen has an electronic eye down the length of the pen. This means [...]