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Portable Scanner Anything
Carrying a scanner around with your PC, so you can scan documents for OCR or archival, is useful, but can be cumbersome. But what if the scanner could store the page images it captures itself?
IRIScan anywhere 2 is a portable, battery-powered scanner which stores pages either in 512MB of internal memory, or in any SD card plugged into the slot on its side. There’s a 1GB card supplied.
The scanner has a USB connection, through which it charges when connected to a PC or Mac, and another you can connect a USB drive to, as an alternative to an SD card.
The main USB connection also connects it as an external drive, so image files can be dragged and dropped straight into a computer, once scanned. The batteries take about four hours to charge and are then good for around 100 A4 pages.
IRIS provides a very complete software bundle, including its own ReadIRIS Pro OCR software, CardIRIS Pro 5 for reading and interpreting business cards, and Roxio’s PhotoSuite 9 graphics editor.
The scanner is sheet-fed, with a top resolution of 600 pixels per inch (ppi), so easily enough for scanning text for OCR and colour photos from prints. The scan quality, while OK, is not up to handling photos for anything other than screen use. Pages we scanned for text were handled well and produced usable Word files with few recognition errors.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Hardware Minimum system requirements
- A free USB port
-Installable on any operating system that supports mass storage protocol (Windows®, Mac®, Linux®, Unix®, etc.).
-Works without installing any driver.
Minimum system requirements for Windows®:
- A USB Host port (USB 1.1 or 2.0)
- USB mass storage protocol must be supported by your OS
- An Intel® Pentium® based PC or equivalent is recommended.
- 128 MB RAM is recommended to process grayscale and color images
- 300 MB free disk space
- A DVD ROM drive and a free USB port
- Windows Vista®, XP, ME, 2000 or 98
Minimum system requirements for Mac OS®:
- A USB Host port (USB 1.1 or 2.0)
- USB mass storage protocol must be supported by your OS.
- A Mac® computer with a G3 processor.
- 260 MB free disk space.
- A DVD-ROM drive and a free USB port.
- MAC OS® X version 10.3.9. (Mac OS® 10.4 is recommended).
Excellent – A Portable, Bluetooth-Enabled Speaker
When we think about speakers, we imagine huge, bulky, unsightly speakers. Now, what do you think of a speaker that is portable and yet an integrated sound system all the same?
Tiptop speaker is a bluetooth-enabled speaker, allowing it to work with any Bluetooth-enabled device. As soon as you take it out of the box, Tiptop is ready to be used. There are no wires or buttons involved here. You control the volume from your device.
The creators have taken the space factor into consideration while designing Tiptop. Instead of the regular atop a table, a cabinet or the floor, Tiptop is optimizing the unused space that you have in your home – the corner of your walls. It will fit perfectly on the corner of your walls, just mount it up there with the power of magnets.
Yes, the mount as built in magnets so you can stick Tiptop to it. Since the mount has magnets, youcan even hang your keys there if you’re taking your Tiptop out with you for portable use.
Tiptop has Bluetooth 3.0 built in and a range of 30-feet. A rechargeable lithium ion-batteryresides in the speaker, giving you up to 10 hours of playback on a single charge. Think of it as a smartphone device rather than speakers of yonder years. You can also charge it via micro USB, as well as transfer firmware.
The creators of Tiptop needs $215,000 to produce Tiptop on Kickstarter. You can be an owner of Tiptop by backing this project for $175 on Kickstater. As of now, Tiptop only ships within US. At the time of this writing, Tiptop mostly ships within the US but it does ship overseas for a $199 pledge, a special offer reserved for international early birds only. The estimated delivery is on Jan 2014.
