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...first thing you notice about the scanner is that it looks more like a picture frame than a computer gadget. You simply drop a photo between the 4670 and its book-stand-like holder, then watch through the transparent center as the image sensor moves across your photo...
...breakthrough is in the device's space-saving design. While a normal scanner lies flat and can take up more than a square foot of desktop space, the 4670 has the footprint of a medium-size dictionary and stands at a 45° angle...
...want to get a digital image of a book or anything else too wide to wedge between the scanner and its holder, you can just lay the scanner flat on top of the object. Two buttons let you send images straight to the printer or to a free online photo album at hpphoto.com...
...about the brain, especially if you want to know more about what passes for normal. Even highly detailed pictures from the most advanced computer-enhanced X-ray imaging machines could reveal only the organ's basic anatomy, not how the various parts worked together. What researchers needed was a scanner that didn't subject patients to radiation and that showed which parts of the brain are most active in healthy subjects as they perform various intellectual tasks. What was needed was a breakthrough in technology...
...January 2002, Mineapolis, Minn. Incident: A woman had a loaded gun inside her briefcase when she entered the Ramsey County Courthouse Security: Deputies working security missed the gun when they opened her briefcase and searched it by hand; it was picked up on an x-ray scanner outside a courtroom