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Ever since my grandparents bought me a police scanner last summer, constant squawking has filled the background of my daily life. The little black box on my bureau calls out street addresses, suspect descriptions, and the other minutiae of law enforcement’s lexicon. From speeding tickets to serious crime, the dispatches require a trained ear to filter out the real drama from the regular drivel...
...fearsome mummy that spawned a legendary curse and a generation of horror movies turns out to have been a slender, buck-toothed teenager who probably died after a serious accident. A team of Egyptian scientists recently put King Tutankhamen through a medical scanner, generating 1,700 highly detailed three-dimensional images of the boy king's remains. Using an exact model of Tut's skull, three forensic teams then reconstructed the face behind the famous golden mask. The process is documented in a National Geographic Channel special, King Tut's Final Secrets, airing May 29. The images also debunk...
...hushed roomful of executives looks on, Luke Skywalker makes a daring decision. Crouched in the cockpit of his spaceship, the hero of the Star Wars saga switches off a computer scanner and aims the craft's laser guns himself. Goof-off time in the boardroom? In fact, that dramatic scene is from a videocassette of the best seller Megatrends, one of a growing number of popular books being used in taped form in management-training programs. The next face on the screen belongs not to Darth Vader but to Author John Naisbitt, who explains the lesson of the space segment...
...While lots of people have gone digital, there are still times when a scanner would be handy for e-mailing an older print or posting it on an online photo site. The Visigo Photo Scanner from Ambir Technology is a 600-dpi model about the size of a stapler that plugs into any USB port and works with popular image-editing programs like Adobe Photoshop Elements. It draws power from your computer, so no batteries or other power supplies are needed. In tests, the Visigo took 25 seconds to scan a 4-in. by 6-in. photo. Though...
While lots of people have gone digital, there are still times when a scanner would be handy for emailing an older print or posting it on an online photo site. The Visigo Photo Scanner from Ambir Technology is a 600-dpi model about the size of a stapler that plugs into any USB port and works with popular image-editing programs like Adobe Photoshop Elements. It draws power from your computer, so no batteries or other power supplies are needed. In tests, the Visigo took 25 seconds to scan a 4-in. by 6-in. photo. While...