The Zeutschel OS 12000 BookCopy is probably the ultimate hand scanner, in that you stand there reading the book and as you do so, you can scan it at a page a second. Neat idea for libraries and other areas where you need fast, reliable copies, but a manual operator is perhaps not so good for those naughty piratez who want to digitize the world in an automated split of a second. [Via AVING]  Description: overhead copy system for books,…

The FaceSCAN III is a 1.4 megapixel, halogen lamp based face scanning apparatus (lovely word, Jasper) which gives all sorts of opportunities for rendering our lovely mugs in 3D statue form, online games, avatars and everything narcissistic. Probably not cheap (version II was €30,000) and probably no good for scanning cats.  faceSCAN III represents the newest generation of our successful faceSCAN series. It offers maximum cost-effectiveness for a wide range of applications. In particular, texture resolution has been improved to 1.4…

The Clever3000 Home Server is a media center with  an internal 1.5 TerraByte RAID array of hard disks (2TB in total), 2 GB of RAM and twin analogue/digital television tuners on-board. Yep, this is not yer grandpa’s media center all right. Throw in a DVD recorder, enough connectivity to sink a battleship and a price of £3347.58 and should be realising that this is for serious punters only. Doesn’t look like an Intel powered PC though, does it?  The Clever3000…

The Magma ExpressBox lets you use a desktop PC PCI-Express card with your laptop. Why? Well, you could hook up a super powerful PCI-E graphics board to your laptop and run mega games at full resolution without a flicker of hassle. And other things. Prices start at $729.00 though, so you’re going to need to sell the boss on another use if you want to get this one through the budget filters.   Magma ExpressBox is an easy-to-use device for attaching…

Those dear Swedish folk at Ikonoskop, famed for their rather slick Super 16mm film camera, are apparently readying a new Super 8mm film unit for release. The A-Cam DS8 will feature the same specs as its 16mm big brother, and use the same film, but split in two in some strange manner unbeknownst to this reporter. Priced above $5000.00. Tags: super+8mm, film+camera

OrigenAE S21T PC Case with Motorized LCD. Designed for those who need the most ‘out there’ Home Theater rig anywhere this side of Wilshire Blvd. A 12.1 inch motorized LCD screen on the front panel? What were these guys smoking? Around £680.00 all in.  Featuring an impressive 12.1 inch motorized TFT touch screen, removable motherboard tray, support for ten hard drives, no visible screws on the outside of a 5mm thick one-piece aluminium chassis panel, unrivalled hardware compatibility and a footprint…

The Thinklabs Digital Stethoscope offers all the usual digital advantages. Adjustable volume, acoustic fidelity and pretty coloured LED lights. Ooooh…Priced from around $395.00.  Audible Ausculation is finally here with the ultimate in stethoscope sound quality. Adjust volume for faint heart sounds, obese patients, noisy work environments. Whether you diagnose sublte murmurs, take blood pressures, you’re a student or you do academic research recordings, the ds32a sets new standards in electronic stethoscope audio quality and ease-of-use. Thinklabs – the intelligent choice…

The Audio Authority AVAtrix HD Home Theater Routing System. Six in, seven out video routing system which will spit HD video around a Cat5 cable network faster than you can say, ‘let’s wire up the East Wing, darling.’ Are we right in thinking this is about $4000.00 a pop?  The AVAtrix is a matrix configuration of HD component video, digital audio and stereo audio signals. Any of six sources may be routed to multiple remote Wallplates or to the local…

| Hitachi DZHS300A Hybrid Camcorder. Records onto either an internal hard disk or a DVD. Not only that, but you can transfer footage from disk to DVD in-camera. Now that’s more like it. After a few years of getting the bits kicked out of them, it looks as though the camcorder makers are finally starting to fight back. Good. 8 GB hard disk (enough for 3 hours of footage), 20x optical zoom, 680K CCD and USB 2.0.  

The LaCie Brick Desktop 300 GB Hard Drive. A stackable hard drive that looks like a LEGO brick? Mmm…there’s a joke in there somewhere, but it eludes us right now. $139.99.   Stack & Play with other LaCie Brick Hard Drives * Professional storage is now easy and fun * Add colors to your computing life * Store & back up music, photos, videos and office files

The Gstor Plus Hard Disk. Incorporates an auto backup system so you can restore your PC in a couple of minutes if you get into trouble with viruses, bad software, Windows corruption or whatever. RAM Disk Mode automatically restores the original copy of the disk every time you boot up the machine (designed for libraries etc) and the Live Disk Mode lets you manually restore the original image when you need to. Why aren’t all hard disks like this? Review…

The TravelSat Digismart II. Designed to let RV and caravan travellers quickly and easily lock to their favourite television satellite system, no matter where they are. Just park up, erect the dish and motor unit, press a button and presto, instant Realitee TeeVee. £1349.95 for the 65cm dish version. [scroll down to near the bottom the target page for the product]   Plug it in, the dish rotates and searches. It finds the satellite automatically. Weight 18Kg. Quick and easy….

The Yo Byke Spin EV Scooter is India’s answer to the growing electrical vehicle movement. Since there are somewhere in the region of three trillion conventional scooters buzzing around that fair nation as we speak, the company has a fairly large target market to aim for. Now if only they can find a way to make cheap easy electricity available to all…Charging time 6 – 8 hours, range 75 km, max speed 25 kph. [Thanks Abhijit]   • Rechargeable Battery • Intelligent Braking…

Sofa Guard. Teach your pet not to jump onto your precious furniture by installing this 105 decibel alarm mat as a deterrent. OK, so it may annoy your friends and family for a while, but they’ll be grateful later on. The pet meanwhile will probably go deaf. Ah well. £18.95.  Just place the sofa guard on your couch or favourite armchair and switch on the device. As soon as your pet jumps onto the mat, which is fitted with sensors,…