Most of us have flatbed scanners at home, and many of them take a few minutes to scan a single document. Even though the resolution and clarity of today’s scanners is better than it was ten years ago, the speed of scanning remains almost the same.

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Hovercam scans documents quickly, takes up less space

One of reasons why I go to CES is to see the newest gadgets. Some of these new devices are definitely planned to be out this year, and some will be out years from now. Watch the video of the RFID card reader with the OLED display and see which category that falls under

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The new ID of the future?

Some of you might remember when we reported on the Taser Axon , a camera that mounts on the head.

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San Jose cops to get cameras on their heads

Whenever I think of 3D scanning, I think of this very complicated process of a multitude of cameras surrounding an object, taking pictures at every angle, and then blending them all together with a computer. A PhD student at the Cambridge University Engineering Department named Qi Pan has made like Apple and “thought different”.

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3D Rendering not difficult with ProFORMA

What you are looking at here isn’t some miniature all-in-one desktop computer with printer, but the Epson Address Expert.

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Epson Address Expert printer series are good postcard printer

The Battery Wizard promises it can recharge even disposable batteries. Although initially more expensive, the advantage of rechargeable batteries has always been that they cut down on buying more batteries and they cut down on depleted batteries clogging our landfills.

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Battery Wizard magically recharges disposables

See that picture to the left? Beautiful, isn’t it?

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Two MIT students capture images of Earth from space for under $150

The world’s first open source camera? Makers are trying to make the digital camera much like the personal computer, something to tinker and custom build with parts taken from here or there to get just the right combination for the kind of pictures you want to take

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Frankencamera : Open Source Digital Camera scavenges parts from just about anything

The Eye Ball R1 can give troops a better view of enemy positions with a simple toss. There’s a great scene in the Cartoon Network original Star Wars Clone Wars series where Arc Troopers, pinned down and badly needing a fresher perspective, take a spherical probe droid camera and toss it high in the air. The camera gives the troopers a birds eye view of the entire city around them, spotting enemy positions and giving them great advantage when attacking

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With the Eyeball R1, someone’s a Star Wars fan in the Military

The Canon G11 sports a 5x optical zoom that’s 2 stops faster than the G10. Canon has announced the latest in the “G” series, the Powershot G11, which sports a larger, 5x zoom len (28-140mm 35mm equivalent) which is 2 stops faster, a 10MP CCD (backing down from 14MP in the G10) with better low light performance thanks to an upgraded anti-noise sytem, and a 2.8 inch viable angle color LCD

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Canon G11: better, stronger, faster