Every year, millions of tonnes of perfectly good food are wasted around the world because people aren't sure it's still fresh. To cut down on this, researchers at Fraunhofer are developing an infrared ...

British postgraduate students have devised a pocket-sized fingerprint scanner designed to help patients in the developing world get improved access to healthcare. Toby Norman, Daniel Storisteanu, and ...

I have a folder somewhere in my iPhoto with the pages of my mother's recipe books hastily photographed. The idea was to grab a copy of all my favorite childhood dishes and render them into a form I'd ...

The Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for the PUP Pocket hand scanner has come to an end, but since the start of its crowdfunding journey the development team has now raised over $895,000 for the ...

Researchers in Japan have devised an image scanner from a sheet of organic electronics that can flex to scan curved objects. James Tyrrell finds out more. An image scanner that can be rolled up and ...

Some of you may remember the SCiO, originally a Kickstarter darling back in 2014 that promised people a pocket-sized micro spectrometer. It was claimed to be able to scan and determine the composition ...

Most pen-size scanners sacrifice speed for size, often reading one word at a time. But the DocuPen's reader is 8 in. wide, so it can scan an entire page—including ...