Yes, the New York City is no more that safe as it may used to be, and thus the NYPD is looking for newer and better methods to make the city much safer, and one of their solutions is this Mobile Scanner that allows the police to spot armed passerby on the street without ever having to get out of a police van. The device is something like the full body scans used in airports, while it is much compacter and portable, also with a wide range of three to four feet. And in the future, the device may be produced with a range of up to 80 feet, which means that it can reach people on the other side of the street easily. So will this make New York safer? Let the time to tell us the answer.

Designer: New York City Police Department

For people who have too many business cards to handle, this Mini Business Card Scanner is the best gift they can ever get. It’s portable and easy-to-use, allowing the users to scan business cards in seconds and store the information with an organized list. After that, the users can then import, export, and synchronize their personal data on computers. So what are you waiting for? Get the smart gadget and manage your business cards.

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It’s the right time to safeguard your hardware in a more effective way…And one of the new solutions is put forward by Wu Jiang, a Chinese designer who advocates scanning the flash drives to ensure there’s no virus before you connect them to the computers. The name of his design is the “U+ USB Hub and Disk Scanner”, and it will work in tandem with the popular virus protection software to ensure the virus infection doesn’t spread. But at present, it is still a concept, and we may have to wait for years to see the creative gadget on the market.

Designer: Wu Jiang

Do scanners merely turn printed text into digital format? Apparently the answer is no, as the ‘BookReader’ launched by Cerritos, CA-based manufacturer Plustek Technology Inc also reads the book for you. Mainly aiming at visually impaired users who still want to read books, the device not only uses the optical character recognition software to convert printed books or documents into digital formats, but adopts the text-to-speech recognition software to translate them into audio files. So simply put a book page on the scanner, press the button and then you can listen to the page. That’s cool!

The device could scan in three different modes: plain text, a grayscale PDF scan and a color scan.

Though we can find out what our palms look like easily, have you got a clear idea about your hips? Let the fully-automatic iBum chair tell you. When you sit on the chair, after the built-in sensor detects your existence, a scanner on the top then will then start to scan your buttocks and print it out auomatically.

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Braille is sure a good way to provide information for the blind by touching. However, not everything will be translated into Braille. So why not just read the words?

The voice stick, which comes with a scanner, can read the word instantly for the blind. Just swipe it over the book, in the same way as using a portable scanner, all the words will be read to the blind. In addition, you can take a earplug to prevent disturb others.

Designer: Sungwoo Park

Although you could get vocabulary and any knowledge via online dictionary,Google and Wikipedia, you still have to stop reading to type the words. By using this Unical Dixau device with a built-in camera, what you should do to search the related information is just align the device over the word you want to look up.

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This is the first time that the new technique comes to USA. What you should do to start your computer is just put your palm above the mouse, the sensor will judge whether you’re accredit user.

This technique is safer than normal printer scanner because the pattern is accurate only when the blood is circulating.

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Booksnap could scan a book in the fast speed, but it need to much space for storage. So, you might like a scanner like Between Pages.

In order the scan two pages of a book at once, what you should do is just insert this scanner into your book.

Designer: Kim Hyun-Woo,Jeong Sang-Hyun,Seok June-Ho

The normal scanner is a good thing for transforming a standard book into a electronic one. But, you will waste a bunch of time in the process. By using this booksnap, your work could be much faster. Just put your book on the V-shaped holder, it gonna be OK. Oh, moreover, you should also keep flicking the pages. So , you might need a gadget as below.

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If you always suffer the scare from dentist, you might like this. It has two parts, one could be mounted on mirror; the other one, which is actually a scanner, could scan your teeth. Just put it in your mouth and bite it and then put it back on the base, all the information gonna be transmitted to your dentist.s

Designer: Sarah Tisdale