Going through security at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, passengers have the choice of a pat-down or a walk through a full body scanner, and Jon Hilkevitch is going “with the touch-less scan every time.” He took a spin through a checkpoi...

The Transportation Security Administration gave travelers a sneak peek of the controversial full-body scanner technology Monday at O'Hare Airport. Following the attempted Christmas Day bombing...

Based on its recent analysis of the cardiac molecular imaging systems market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Positron Corporation with the 2010 North American Award for New Product Innovation, for its pioneering cardiac positron emissi...

I bought a Canon scanner to use with my MacBook Pro 13-inch laptop, but it just doesn't work. Once in a while it produces a scan, but most of the time, the drivers say they can't find a scanner attached to the computer. I've been a...

In a recent article in journal Radiology, researchers from UC Irvine and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign describe a method of using a laser to differentiate between benign and malignant tumors within breast tissue. The hand...

Dan Reetz spoke on campus yesterday and amazed us with not only his DIY Book Scanner, but perhaps more importantly the DIY Book Scanner community. Dan estimated that his $250 scanner could easily produce high-resolution scans of 500...

© Oceana/Keith Ellenbogen Happy Friday! As we speak, an Oceana team is headed to the CITES conference in Doha, Qatar, which begins tomorrow. We will be bringing you updates from the conference as we push for trade restrictions for...

For today’s edition of Deal of the Day, Amazon.com has the 4/5 stars consumer-rated Canon PIXMA MP490 Inkjet Photo All-In-One Printer for only $49.95. If you’re on a tight budget and need a printer/scanner combo, I don’t think you’l...

Memoirs of a Scanner (Martinibomb Version) from Damon Stea on Vimeo.ViA...

Photo by Will Rice Lawyers for asshat/former governor Rod Blagojevich have requested that his trial be moved to at least November.Today in the Boender Bribery trial.The first full body scanner was installed today in the United...

Please let this be a video meme that catches on: “Memoirs of a Scanner” is composed completely of still images “shot” on a scanner. This contains some allusions to salty behavior, so if you’re outrageously prudish, consider this a w...

(Video Link) Memoirs of a Scanner by Mindfruit Films was shot with just an office image scanner. It’s only a minute long and composed entirely of still shots, but it has a coherent plot. Directed by Damon Stea. via Gizmodo | Studi...

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It's one thing to shoot an entire short film on a Canon flatbed computer scanner. It's another to do it well. With Memoirs of a Scanner, Mindfruit Films pretty much nailed it. Mo...

Brian Cassidy: Clever short film shot entirely with a flatbed scanner. It's kind if like if The Office was told from the point-of-view of the copy machine. ...

Springpad, a rival to Evernote's popular cross-platform note-taking service, has just bumped the competition up a notch with a new release that integrates semantic technology to automatically enhance the notes you save with relevant...

Short Version: Tax season is upon us, friends, and wouldn't those 1099s and W2s floating hither and yon would be much more accessible if they were nestled deep inside a searchable PDF? Sure. That's why Fujitsu invented the $295 Sc...

Short Version: Tax season is upon us, friends, and wouldn’t those 1099s and W2s floating hither and yon would be much more accessible if they were nestled deep inside a searchable PDF? Sure. That’s why Fujitsu invented the $295 Scan...

UPDATE BELOW: An NYPD officer shot a man who might have "pulled out a toy gun" and "pointed it at police," according to police scanner dispatches. Details are still coming in, but multiple sources report that an officer opened f...

Also shit-canned by Apple in the Great App Store Purge of 2010: Wi-Fi scanning apps. The reason being that they used private frameworks to access wireless info. While some of these apps might’ve been useful, especially the ones with...