An ultrasound scanner the size of a large mobile phone has been launched in Europe and North America.
Because the 3D scanner does not compress the skin like a tape measure does, and the scanner also measures the small of the back, it produces waist measurements around 1.9cm larger than a tape measure.
If neither the scanner nor the Telecode department can appropriately identify the offending label, the package winds its way through the system to be inspected by hand.
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On the police scanner in the aftermath of the attack, first responders discussed grounding a helicopter because it needed to refuel.
Google wants to be the antivirus scanner for the entire Web.
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The ScanJet 6200C is the only corporate scanner on the chart that supports both SCSI and USB interfaces.
In a shop, where the scanner sits by the till and is supervised by a clerk, a thief could not make repeated payment attempts without raising suspicion, so false positives are unlikely.
The 9 million users of the most popular QR code scanner for the iPhone scan just 4, 000 QR codes per day.
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Last year a chance meeting brought the negatives out into the open and eventually to a digital scanner with the work being catalogued by a team of volunteers.
The mobile positron emission tomography (Pet) scanner visits the Bristol Royal Infirmary (BRI) three times a week.
This is, in other words, the fabled process of waving your mobile phone in front of a scanner at the till to pay for your groceries.
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They make it possible for smart phone users (who have a scanner and the right software) to go swiftly and effortlessly to a corporate, product or brand website.
Oh, and there's also a fingerprint scanner below the display.
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.
It also currently needs to be wired to a computer to work, although NZIR says the scanner will be fully wireless by the time its ready to hit the market two years from now.
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We can also make out that fingerprint scanner from the teaser campaign, as well as a MemoryStick Duo slot and a "capture" button, although if that Motion Eye doesn't swivel, it won't make much of a camera.
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.
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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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.
In 2004 and 2005, the TSA at first dismissed privacy concerns, then sought to address them by placing TSA officers viewing the scanner imagery in remote locations, away from the passenger being screened.
The WBI scanner as currently deployed in the United States, while effective, is not the only tool available to us.
During a recent test, Daniel Weissman, the neuroscientist in charge of the experiment, explained that a man lying inside the scanner would be performing different tasks, depending on the color of two numbers he sees on a screen.
While in the scanner, each person carried out a counting task on the computer.
The laser beam in the scanner shoots a steady stream of photons, all of the same frequency, at the plastic.
While in the scanner she was shown responses of four other subjects to the pairs of objects before seeing them herself, then performed the mental rotation required to evaluate the images.
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.
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It looks like a cross between a flip top phone and the medical scanner used by Dr McCoy in the TV series Star Trek.
The scanner itself consists of a digital camera with an on-board laser that determines the distance to the object, although it also apparently requires that targets be placed around the scene to properly scan the object -- or person, as the case may be.
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We went up again, about 1400 feet, stuck our hand out the window with the QR scanner on, hung on tight to the phone and it scanned right away.
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