Huddled in a damp fire-station a young man connects a laptop, a binocular-style iris scanner and a glowing green machine that records 30 points from a set of fingerprints.
For, if the methods Dr Ehrsson and Dr Blanke have come up with can be reproduced on volunteers inside a brain-scanner, then it might be possible to study the neurological network involved.
Master Lock sells a garage-door opener with a built-in fingerprint scanner, the Kwikset SmartScan Deadbolt will open up your front door with another finger swipe and Schlage's LiNK door locks allow owners to give anyone access to their home by punching a code into a computer keyboard or mobile phone's keypad.
Anurag Gupta, a telecoms entrepreneur, has reduced a bank branch to a smart-phone and a fingerprint scanner that allow ATM machines to be taken to rural customers.
For example, I made a high-resolution scanner and you could print on glass plates.
Staffers used a high-speed scanner to quickly transform the 1, 275-page document from hard copy to Web pages.
Early in 2007 a new cancer centre run by Cardiff University was launched with a custom-built scanner on site.
Invest in a scanner-printer combo to convert paper documents into electronic data.
It is supplying customers with change-of-address labels to attach to their paper bills, so that in future they will be sent to PayMyBills, which will put them online using a high-speed scanner.
The infected ads placed by DoubleClick installed software on machines that warned users of a virus infection--and suggested they buy a scanner program.
Goldberg was one of the many to declare war on the scanners this week, promoting a Scanner Opt-Out Day on November 24th.
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They did not bring it up, but the threat of a national Scanner Opt-Out Day on November 24th could make for some serious headaches for Thanksgiving flyers.
"The initial program installed itself as a browser helper object (BHO) for Internet Explorer that downloaded a component from childhe.com and attempted to trick the victim into installing a fake anti-virus scanner from bestantispyware securityscan.com and protectionsoft warecheck.com, " he explained.
Moreover, it can reportedly "reprogram the steering ratio and amplify the intensity and quickness of the steering response" to keep motorists safe, but there's no word on whether or not a retinal scanner add-on will be available to automatically adjust user preferences depending on which driver hops in the seat.
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Rapiscan Systems, which makes the backscatter X-ray scanner, installs one of a series of "privacy algorithms" that can dial up or down the images' resolution. (Of course, the fuzzier the result the harder it is to spot a weapon.) Similarly, millimeter scanner-maker L-3 can blur faces, chests and groins, depending on the customer's preference.
He says there were plenty of ideas about how to improve local services, such as a community-based gynaecology service with a specialist and a scanner.
And if you want to send pictures of the new baby to grandma via the Internet, save the shot in a graphics file and attach it to e-mail -- no need to buy a scanner to input regular 35mm prints.
What is not included on any platform (Android, iPhone or Windows) is a built-in QR code scanner.
The laser system, which includes a low-cost, portable scanner, is extremely accurate, according to the research team, and it also still recognised surface patterns after the materials had been abused.
"You get back from a conference -- you drop off 15 business cards into a little scanner and it places them all digitally, " said Gutsche.
People in an fMRI scanner watched a half-hour-long sequence combining very short video clips of everyday scenes.
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The Photosmart 2710 All-in-One combines a inkjet printer with a fax, copier, and scanner, and can print wirelessly using built-in 802.11g WiFi or an optional Bluetooth module.
It doesn't hurt to acquire a code scanner, or download engine-diagnostic apps for a smartphone, experts say.
Run an unfamiliar tool under an end-of-aisle scanner, and a printer would spit out a page showing how to use it.
Now they have something that works like a flatbed document scanner, with a scanning head containing either six or 12 light-emitting diodes, each emitting light of a specific wavelength between 350 nanometres (ultraviolet) and 800 nanometres (infra-red).
This particular unit sported an Intel Core i5-3427U chip (capped at 2.3GHz instead of 2.8GHz), a vibrant IPS panel, a fingerprint scanner, front and back cameras, 4GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD -- twice the announced capacity, for some reason.
At an airport with a full body scanner, I can have the image of my body displayed before a stranger -- virtual nudity.
And desktop 3D printing and scanning is getting cheaper every day -- Canadian company Matterform is developing a lightweight 3D scanner called the Photon that's cheaper than a tablet.
Anyone who's ever installed a sound card, scanner or modem knows that even at its easiest, it still requires a bit of know-how and a fair amount of time.
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