Gadgets February 26, 2010 posted by Nigel

Ion Pics 2 PC Photo Scanner – transfer all your attic flotsam into digitally wonderful, fast

photoandnegativescanners small1 Ion Pics 2 PC Photo Scanner transfer all your attic flotsam into digitally wonderful, fast

Grab one or both of these Ion Pics 2 PC Photo Scanner thingies and you’ll be able to retrieve decades of lost history from your attic basement garage top drawer wardrobe hideaway in a flash. Designed to operate chop-chop, quickety-quick, you’ll be able to scan and digitize your prints at 5 megapixel resolution to disk or SD card at the rate of around one a second, fabulous eh?

ionpics2pcphotoscanner small Ion Pics 2 PC Photo Scanner transfer all your attic flotsam into digitally wonderful, fast

Once on disk you can then conveniently forget about them for another 10 years until tech moves on to a holographic format and you have to convert them once again. And so on… Good game. From £119.99.

These one-touch 5.1MP scanners make digitising precious images a doddle. Simply slip in your photos, negatives or slides and clever electronic tomfoolery will scan and pixellate the trapped images in seconds, leaving you to archive them, burn them to CD, upload them to Facebook or blow them up to cringe at your appalling lack of dress sense. Choose from two versions…

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