Virginia Postrel

Fit experts envision a future in which you'd carry your body scan in your cell phone or on a thumb drive, using the data to order clothes online or find them in stores. But who's going to pay for all those scanners, which cost about $35,000 each, and the staff to run them?

American Writer

Marc Guggenheim

We're not militant, but there are certain things that are absolutely secret. There was a pilot printed on red paper, and I read everything on my iPad and have a scanner on my desk for these purposes. I scanned in the script, and red paper script scans in perfectly fine.

Aaron Patzer

At 16, I started a web development business and had clients from the Netherlands, Caribbean, and across the country - none of whom knew my age because I could conduct all my business with a phone, scanner, and the Internet.

American Businessman

Dan Gilroy

A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in New York. He was the first person to put a police scanner in a car and drive around.

Dana Priest

When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.

American Journalist

Doris Kearns Goodwin

I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.

American Historian

Bre Pettis

When we looked out at the world and saw what 3D scanners could do, we wanted to make something that could make really high quality models that you could create on your MakerBot.

Sourav Ganguly

When you play cricket for India, you are always under the scanner. You are always judged by others; you have to live up to it all.

Indian Entertainer

Isaac Yeffet

Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?

Israeli Public Servant

Evgeny Morozov

WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire U.S. government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.

Belarusian Writer

Scanners transform physical items into digital files, commonly for storage or sharing.

Digital Conversion

Different scanners exist for specific tasks such as scanning photographs, books or slides.

Variety of Scanners

Scanners have varying resolutions, affecting the clarity and detail of digital copies.

Resolution Detail

Scanners in security contexts ensure safety by revealing concealed items without opening bags.

Security Measures

Barcode scanners in stores speed up the checkout process by reading product information quickly.

Speed and Efficiency

Medical scanners provide internal images of the body, aiding in diagnosis without invasive procedures.

Medical Diagnosis

Scanners are critical in modern medicine for observing internal organs without making incisions.

Non-Invasive Technology

Some medical scanners, like CT, use radiation; understanding the risks and benefits is essential.

Radiation Awareness

 and we spent much of our history coming up with ways to detect them, from medieval torture devices to polygraphs, blood-pressure and breathing monitors, voice-stress analyzers, eye trackers, infrared brain scanners, and even the 400-pound electroencephalogram. But although such tools have worked under certain circumstances,

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 in understanding how our brains work by monitoring them in real time with instruments like fMRI and PET scanners. When people are hooked up to these machines, tasks, such as reading or doing math problems, each have corresponding areas of the brain where activity can be observed.

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 system we are putting people into brain scanners we've done two studies so far I'm working on it absolutely daily we're beginning to map some of the brain circuitry of personality style and won't go into that I will end with two things

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 And this makes for a very short mission life. The second problem is that these robots have onboard sensors that end up being very expensive -- a laser scanner, a camera and the processors. That drives up the cost of this robot.

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 the team behind the Moonshot united millions of people around the world -- that this crazy ambition wasn't so crazy after all. And along the way, it helped the invention of breathing equipment, CAT scanners and solar panels.

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 and you go outside into the real world? And what if there's no GPS? So this robot is actually equipped with a camera, and a laser rangefinder, laser scanner. And it uses these sensors to build a map of the environment.

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