The FM radio's scanner "found" a station at virtually every legal frequency, even when no signal was present--as well as several channels unusable in North America.
By doing so the robot's camera scanner reading of DNA test strips eliminates human error.
The test would be to see if Dr Dresler's brain scanner could reliably tell the difference.
Hundreds of Isle of Man patients requiring an MRI scan will be seen in a mobile unit whilst the Department of Health's current scanner is upgraded.
The scanner's magnets need 22MW of electricity - enough to power a nuclear submarine.
It was a pleasant experience enclosed in the scanner's vast twin magnets.
Oh, and there's also a fingerprint scanner below the display.
According to the company, the scanner's equally adept at creating a detailed 3D model of a crime scene as it is of a movie set and, what's more, it can be done in only two minutes.
ENGADGET: Industrial Research creates 3D crime scene/movie set scanner
And while being able to look up the contents of your fridge as you enter the supermarket sounds compelling, knowing that the owner has to manage the list manually (there's no UPC code scanner and RFID is still just a dream) tarnishes our enthusiasm quite a bit.
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MakerBot's announcement of its Digitizer scanner is an unusual occurrence at SXSW Interactive, which is typically known for launching apps and social media tools, not hardware.
The Canadian Space Agency is on the verge of making the Star Trek Medical Tricorder a reality with the Microflow, a medical scanner that's currently in development.
In one corner, a teacher checks out one of the molecule models printed by a colleague and starts chatting with a computer science engineering student who's fiddling with the 3D scanner nearby.
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Both parties have to register their fingerprints using a biometric scanner that's plugged into the washing machine, which will only work if it scans a different finger than the one used before (you could also trick the machine and use two of your own fingers when you first set things up, but you'd only be fooling yourself right?).
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Well, the NEK has whipped up something to lend a hand that's a bit larger than another recent scanner.
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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.
Merely stripping down the frills of a medical scanner used in the U.S. and selling for less does not work in China.
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With a background in digital imaging, Sareen set out to make an inexpensive body scanner that could utilize Tukatech's technology to better serve the clothes-buying public.
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.
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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George Sutherland, professor of cardiac imaging at St George's, London, shows how the portable handheld ultrasound scanner works.
"But if you're an enterprise that depends heavily on e-mail for file transfers, then it's an issue" in need of a remedy such as Y2K Scanner.
Rather than a big scanner, it involves a cap worn on a person's head.
When people performed this task inside the scanner, a significantly smaller part of the brain in Brodmann's Area 37 lit up in dyslexics than non-dyslexics.
An optical-character-recognition machine for the blind that's capable of reading most types of printed text aloud, the CCD flatbed scanner, speech-recognition software, the first synthesizer that created sounds virtually indistinguishable from those produced by their acoustic counterparts, and a whole bunch of other nifty things we can barely comprehend came from Ray's brain.
Broadcastify's Blanton stands by his decision to take down the Boston channels, but he maintains that scanner feeds do more public good than harm.
With mobeam's technology, the Galaxy S4 can "beam" traditional 1D barcode data to any laser scanner with no new equipment, such as optical scanners or backend systems, required by the retailer.
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Called Y2K Scanner, this plug-in server module from Centennial works with Trend Micro's InterScan VirusWall to discover Y2K flaws in files created by spreadsheets, such as Lotus' 1-2-3 and Microsoft's Excel, as well as files from databases, such as Microsoft's Access and Inprise's dBase.
And by placing the MRI machine in the neonatal intensive care unit at Evelina Children's Hospital in London they are one of the few centres in the world to have a scanner in such close proximity to the babies who often need it most, Prof Edwards says.
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New Zealand's Industrial Research looks to be attracting quite a bit of interest in its prototype handheld 3D scanner, snagging fellow New Zealanders Weta Digital to help put the technology through its paces and now hoping the police will hop on board to put the scanner to more grisly uses.
ENGADGET: Industrial Research creates 3D crime scene/movie set scanner
This scanner also comes with the obligatory one-year warranty and Internet-based help via HP's Web site and e-mail service.
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