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How to Make Vintage-Looking Photos With a Scanner
It's like the better our cameras get, the bigger our urge to make pictures look old and vintage-y.
First there was Poladroid to make your photos look like now-defunct Polaroids, and now I've found a tutorial from Make that teaches you to turn an old flatbed scanner into a scanner camera that produces noir-ish black and whites, like in this dog picture.
Are you into making your photos look rad and old?
Portable Scanner DocuPen Brings Out Inner Bond
One of my favorite parts of spy movies, aside from hotties like Daniel Craig, are the fabulous gadgets that aid the spy in hunting down the bad guys and uncovering deep dark secrets. When they're not saved in encrypted files, those secrets are often hidden on manuscripts and if the spy is lucky, he'll have a nifty scanner ring, camera or locket to record his findings.
I'm no 007, but the prospect of using a Docupen portable scanner was pretty alluring.
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High Tech Grocery Cart: Love It or Leave It?
How would you like it if grocery carts had touch screens and barcode scanners that you could use to get nutritional info and environmental impact info from about various foods? The Technology Services Company, EDS, outlined in a recent paper that grocery carts with computer screens would be a practical and cost-effective solution to consumers who like knowing about the foods they consume— even though most said they preferred reading labels directly from the box. Considering the fact that people steal shopping carts minus any high tech trinkets, I can only imagine how crazy thieves would go over these!
Daily Tech: Picture Peek at Windows 7
- Picture peek at Windows 7 — Crave
- Will Google blend search and music with One Box? — CNET
- Windows 7 is more popular than Harry Potter — PC World
- GE shows off pocket-size ultrasound scanner — Crave
- Twitter's chief talks about lists, traffic, and money — NYTimes
- Plane torn apart over lost cell phone — Switched
- MahTweets is an impressive customizable Facebook and Twitter client — Lifehacker
- BlackBerry Storm 2 dummy arrive at Best Buy and Verizon stores — Gizmodo
- 5 things you might not know about Rock Band’s Abbey Road extras — Wired
- It's giveaway and game time on GeekSugar! Be sure to log in and play our Best Video Game Ever bracket!
Are You More Tech Savvy Than Your Boss?
Have you found yourself in this situation? Your boss is either a bit of a technophobe or just doesn't understand how email/her BlackBerry/the office scanner works and asks for your help every time she turns on the device? One writer at Marie Claire confesses she has to help her boss with even the most mindless tech issues — and she's not alone.
Vintage Geek: An Original Series Star Trek Tricorder
Hold onto your spacecraft seatbelts, trekkies, because Amazon has got quite the Star Trek treat for you. For only $45, you can get your hands on an authentic Tricorder role-play replica.
This battery-operated handheld communicator comes with working lights and sound effects taken from the original Star Trek and includes a removable scanner accessory for far away missions.
Geek Tip: Let Amazon Find Your Printer Refills
I know I boasted about being out of the printer game, freeing up the desk space for more efficient things a few months ago, but it appears I'm back in — my boyfriend and I decided that we really needed a scanner, and Ta-Da! Our scanner came with a printer (bonus: it makes my Fandango outings a lot easier).
So now it looks like I will be back to shopping for one of the most annoying things to shop for ever: printer ink refills.
Protect Your Info With Your Fingerprint
Although there are other ways to secure your passwords and data that live on your computer — like say a password manager or even (yikes) a notebook — I can't think of a cooler or more futuristic way to protect all your personal info than with your fingerprint.
This Eikon To Go digital privacy manager for your Mac or PC, keeps all your stuff under wraps from prying eyes by locking your laptop, and will only unlock when you put your unique fingerprint on the reader.
But if you aren't the computing on-the-go type, you can also pick up Eikon's desktop fingerprint scanner to lock away all your files at home as well.
Daily Tech: New OLPC Ad Strikes a Chord This Holiday Season
Skills: the right to educationby olpcfoundation
- OLPC has just come out with a new ad which sheds light on the importance of getting laptops like the XO to children in developing countries. — Gizmodo
- A new finger scanner, which was developed by two students at a Chinese university, detects high blood-alcohol levels. — Wired
- Good news and bad news.
I'd Take My "Looking Glass" With Me Everywhere
I have come to realize how handy it is to have an iPhone attached to my hip at all times. Because of its fast Internet and cool apps, I can find almost anything, anytime, anywhere. But realistically, as awesome as it is, my iPhone can't tell me absolutely everything.
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