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Lomography’s Smartphone Scanner Digitises Film Right To Your Mobile Device
Lomography has made sharing photos from a film camera a heck of a lot easier with its new Smartphone Scanner that’s finally available from the company’s online store. It replaces a desktop scanner and PC with a compact collapsible rig that uses your smartphone’s camera to digitise negatives and slides.
What Black Ops 2 Technology Looks Like In Real Life
Our use of unmanned drones is well documented, and we know about missiles that trigger before they hit the ground. But some of Black Ops 2′s more, shall we say, “imaginative” technologies are based in reality too – they’ll just need a little pushing along before they get to the hyper-weaponised state they are in Treyarch’s imagining of 2025.
This Portable X-Ray Scanner Is Tiny And Brilliant
The once unfathomable technologies of science fiction are starting to become a reality, and the latest comes in the form of an affordable X-ray scanner no bigger than a stick of gum.
Open-Source Book Scanner Uses A Household Vacuum To Turn The Page
In an effort to streamline the process of scanning hundreds of millions of titles, Google Books engineer Dany Qumsiyeh has designed a $US1500 automated scanner from sheet metal, dissected electronics, and a household vacuum. It can chew through a 1000-page odyssey in about 90 minutes, and you’re welcome to build your own since Qumsiyeh has made his Linear Book Scanner open source.
The Secret US Government Laser That Instantly Knows Everything About You
Within the next year or two, the US Department of Homeland Security will instantly know everything about your body, clothes and luggage with a new laser-based molecular scanner fired from 50 metres 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.
