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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To use a bike, you simply swipe your card over a scanner, pull out a bike, adjust the seat to your comfort and go.

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In addition to being able to scan images onto the included SD memory card, the scanner accepts other popular memory cards (SD, MS, MS Pro, MMS, XD) and can also be connected directly to either a Mac or PC computer via its mini-USB port.

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These mobile POS devices, which is a modified iPod Touch with a merchandise scanner and credit card slider, allow employees to check out customers from anywhere in the store.

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Despite that, over 9, 000 kits each with a laptop, a digital camera, a fingerprint scanner and a card printer will be dispatched across the country, reaching their destinations by air, down bumpy bush tracks or on the dugout canoes that ply Congo's rivers.

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After then checking in as normal at the same kiosk, passengers can pass through a miSense automatic security gate by placing their finger on a scanner and inserting their boarding card into the reader.

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