Maybe the cell phone camera could scan for brain damage.

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To ready Dial M for Murder for this current release, MPI's work included a 4K scan of the original camera negative, and a full restoration of the two "eyes, " as well as convergence fixes to ensure perfect alignment.

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Stephen has never shied away from talking publicly about his battle with weight, but it took courage to undergo an MRI scan in front of a camera.

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It has an innovative feature that allows users to scan their credit cards with their iPhone camera to auto-fill billing information (and thus avoid having to fill in information on such a tiny screen).

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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.

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Your friend uses Xsync to scan the QR code you've created with his or her iPhone's camera, and the files are sent to your friend's iPhone.

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And license-plate readers mounted on patrol cars scan traffic and parking lots, comparing a list of known stolen plate numbers to what the camera sees.

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The kit, myself and Steve, plus camera man and climbing expert all needed to get down into the volcano, set up the final laser scan and get out in one piece.

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