The PetiScan--No Small Feat

"This is huge. Imagine being able to take a full-color, flatbed scanner with you when you travel. One you can use to scan business cards, receipts, newspaper articles, photographs, and just about anything else that comes along. A scanner you can hold in one hand. That weighs only 1.3 pounds. And that connects to your PowerBook or iBook via USB, so it doesn't require an external power supply. "Not possible," you say. "Au contraire," we say. It's the PetiScan from NEC Technologies, the full-color mobile scanner to go, and it's available right now--with a full range of scanning-related software--for about $179 (US), just in time for the holidays." [Dana Baggett via Apple eNews]