No matter how fly or flashy modern scanners become, there’s no getting away from their page-by-page assembly line style of operation. Or so we thought. The Ishikawa Komuro Lab at Tokyo University has demonstrated a prototype scanner capable of recording the contents of pages as they turn. Using a laser range projector to estimate page [...]
Just when you thought pigs could fly as Toshiba mulls over delivering a Blu-ray drive to the market despite being a champion of its own HD DVD format some time ago, Microsoft, too, could follow suit as word on the street is going around that the software giant might be rolling out a Blu-ray drive [...]
Here’s another little gadget from Thanko, the USB Action Camera. It can be fixed almost anywhere, like on a bike or helmet and lets you record 30fps VGA video on a [...]
On the Google Docs blog today, the company took the time to make a non-announcement. Basically, there’s a bunch of words that bury the real story: That Google Docs will soon be launching a “brand new shiny interface.” Hmmm. I wonder why. Obviously, earlier this week Microsoft laid out its plans for Office 2010, which includes [...]
