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The Portable Handheld Scanner

June 11, 2011 by  
Filed under Computer Gadgets, USB Gadgets

The Portable Handheld Scanner

 

Scanners are important gadgets regardless of what our occupation might be. At some point in our working lives there is an occasion where important documents need to be scanned, and preserved in our memory card for future reference and information.

So, we’d like to introduce you to the Portable Handheld Scanner. This handheld scanner is jet black, slim, sleek and portable. For the regular user, a portable handheld scanner is indeed valuable and efficient. With one swipe of the gadget you can store documents, photos and letters as a digital content in the memory card which can be retrieved when needed. Scanning your passport for example, will take around 5 – 10 seconds. It is efficient and time saving for the user.

The advantages for this portable handheld scanner include light weight, small in size and also its portability. It is definitely useful for any individual who does a lot of travelling in their occupation. This gadget is also very beneficial for college students when there are important assignments and exam papers to be scanned.

The platform for this scanner is both MAC and PC. The scanner is compatible with the following operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista Apple MacOS X 10.4 and Microsoft Windows 7. For its portability, the power source of handheld scanners are AA batteries which are easy enough to find.

A potential disadvantage of the portable handheld scanner is scanning a good image may take some practice and  patience. Initially the scanned images may be blurred, but the quality of the images scanned will get sharper as the user learns how to properly hover the gadget over the document.

Available: Hammacher

Price: $99.95

Buy the Portable Handheld Scanner at Hammacher Schlemmer