November 21, 2009 - ...traditional blackboard eraser, but its functionality is on a whole new level. The LT brush features a camera and recording pen that students can use to scan what the teacher has put on the chalkboard, thereby recording the lecture for playback...

October 16, 2009 - Part of a wider government initiative called BarcodePlus—a portal for Hong Kong consumers to find product quality and safety information—the authentication kiosk allows customers to scan the labels of their purchases and verify the item’s...

October 08, 2009 - Funai was showing off the new Eco Scan projectors at CEATEC in Japan. The pico projector boasts multi touch recognition, making any surface that it is pointed at into a high tech screen. In the demonstration, users were seen twisting pictures and...

September 08, 2009 - With the Phillips Design food concepts, we’ll be able to change foods into different shapes and consistencies, scan them for nutritional value, and create a biosphere for farming in the comforts of our living rooms.

August 18, 2009 - Motion sensor technology is going through the roof faster than touchscreens, and PrimeSense is the latest innovations taking the world by storm. PrimeSense is a 3D camera that allows your TV to scan the room in order to identify how many people...

August 10, 2009 - The Haptic Reader concept is an interesting take on book translation for the blind. Instead of reading the text aloud, the scanner-like device is placed over the pages of a book and converts the text to braille, so that the reader can scan over...

July 30, 2009 - Shirley Manson, lead singer of Garbage, has been turned into a character for the fifth installment of famed video game, ‘Guitar Hero. They did a scan of my face then I had to put on this weird suit, it was super-freaky,” says Shirley Manson of her...

July 27, 2009 - With 4 motorized sections, this robot can move around just like a real snake. Hell, it can even dance. RoboBoa will twist and writhe to beats that you plug into it with its built-in audio jack. It can even scan a room and interact with objects.

July 18, 2009 - ...won’t stretch, or stain. It also resists corrosive material. The stainless steel wallet also resists radio-frequency hacking—the latest identity theft technique which attempts to scan newer credit cards....

June 06, 2009 - This unusual photo set was shot by Kenneth Sortland Myklebust of Palabrium and is called ‘Brainscans. Getting a brain scan is a traumatic experience for some, but the models in these photos prove that this medical procedure isn’t always a bummer.