Both YottaMark and FoodLogiq offer systems that let shoppers type a text code into a mobile phone or home computer, or scan a bar-code using a phone's built-in camera, to find out when the tomatoes on the shelf were picked and which field they came from.
Scott Gazelle, director of Massachusetts General Hospital's Institute for Technology Assessment, 90.8% of patients who had a full-body scan got a least one positive finding that led to additional testing.
Only Ryan Sidebottom - cleared of a side injury following a scan on Friday evening - will know why he tried to pull a quick delivery that was too close to him and simply lobbed back to India's left-arm paceman in the same over.
Security goes beyond most fingerprint readers, as well: while a basic swipe-and-done scan is an option, the truly cautious can require a multi-scan sequence that fends off just about any intruder.
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Other innovations include placing a QR code on a pill-bottle label that consumers can scan with a smartphone to download a short video with information about the drug.
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Then the patient gets a full-body gamma scan at a nuclear imaging center within 10 minutes and again three or four days later.
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Pay your bills with a cell-phone scan, or order a birthday gift off your daughter's wish list, which she made by scanning items at the mall.
This month, though, the skepticism seems to have morphed into fury and resistance, after the TSA instituted a new pat-down policy requiring those who refuse the full-body scan to undergo a fairly-aggressive frisking.
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He noted that in rural areas where such beliefs are more common, women often give birth without ever seeing a midwife, let alone having a pre-natal scan.
The robot was programmed to create a data-point cloud using a traditional sonar scan.
"The initial test that he took gave us some cause for concern, so we sent him back for a CAT scan and a weight bearing x-ray, " Girardi said.
By the time Mellinger arrived at Landstuhl, the doctors already had a thick file with his medical records, including x-rays and a CT scan.
In 2005, Microsoft announced that it would spend two and a half million dollars to scan a hundred thousand out-of-copyright books in the collection of the British Library.
You can get a one-time scan of most ports free, and more thorough scans for a sliding fee.
The radiation exposure from a Mars journey is similar to getting a full-body CT scan every five or six days, said lead researcher Cary Zeitlin of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo.
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But in many cases, the diagnosis was made on the basis of a single ultrasound scan - which, according to independent doctors, cannot justify a decision to operate.
Additionally, I have a chest x-ray every six months or so and a yearly CT scan.
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The 4150 comes with a 150-MHz Pentium with MMX, 16MB of RAM, a 1.6GB hard drive, and a 12.1-inch dual-scan display.
As to privacy concerns -- namely that the scanners could pick up private features of a person's body -- ter Horst said the scan results would first go through a computer, which would then flag any suspicious items to a human.
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However a scan revealed the 30-year-old has not broken a bone, but he has got bruising and has been advised by Toulon to avoid contact work for two weeks.
He had me bite down on a device called a T-Scan that contains 2, 000 pressure sensors.
Available in the coming year, a scan-and-match feature will take you beyond the 30 million tracks globally offered through Xbox Music.
''We locate objects on the sea bed with a side-scan sonar device which we tow along behind our salvage ship, '' she explained.
Szczesny has missed four matches since damaging the middle finger on his left hand but was given the all-clear following a scan last week.
It also offers a progressive-scan, wide-screen, 60-frame-per-second MPEG-2 format that delivers far less resolution than full-fledged HD, but may work well when transferred to DVD.
He has been released back to his club after a scan revealed he requires a rest period of two-to-four weeks.
On a progressive scan-capable television, images from the DVD-9000 should be incredibly sharp.
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