Once the digital scan is completed, an object can be printed right away.
But a digital scan she emailed showed signs of real ink on paper.
Shroud 2.0 allows users to zoom in on any part of the high-resolution digital scan of the shroud (first produced in 2008) and download more detailed close-ups for a fee.
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For women with dense breasts, it's best to get a digital scan, which is more accurate, says Karla Kerlikowske, a professor of medicine at the University of California in San Francisco.
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Meanwhile, as purists bemoan the lack of true high-definition prerecorded media in the digital world, progressive-scan and upconverted DVDs have been compelling enough to help upsell many an HDTV.
One case study found that it takes ten days for a bank to process a simple student loan that should take one day, because the bank has to print out the online forms and courier them to the applicant for signatures, then wait for them to be returned by post only to scan them back into digital form.
VirtualU provides scanners to retailers that allow consumers to scan their bodies and try on clothes in digital storefronts.
More cleverly, a feature Apple calls iTunes Match will let a user scan their music library to unlock access to high quality digital recordings of the music that can be downloaded to any of their devices.
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You can just scan someone's e-mail, or create a digital repository that someone has access to.
Also, such lasers can scan a much broader field of view than a laser in a digital microscope.
Yesterday at Microsoft's Government Leaders Forum, in front of 300 leader figures from Canada, Latin America and the US, you apparently outlined a future where one's cellphone will becomes their " digital wallet, " and you'll be able to do things like scan business cards?
The card will likely take the place of your driver's license and will store at the very minimum your name, birthdate, sex, ID number, a digital photograph and address, with the possibility of additional data such as a fingerprint or retinal scan.
The solution: Smith advocates an optical scan system where voters fill out a paper ballot that's subsequently scanned to create a digital vote.
"We are constantly striving to deliver the best possible customer experience for Cloud Player, and today we are offering our customers a significant set of new features, including scan and match technology and audio quality upgrade, " said Steve Boom, Vice President of Digital Music at Amazon.
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