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Here’s What the Furby and Other Gadgets Look Like in a CT Scanner

A CT scan can help the people who make these gadgets find flaws and give the public a look at how much goes into making these seemingly “simple” devices work.

Tech News Jody Serrano Mar 26

This App Uses Your Phone’s Camera to Automatically Count Up a Pile of Objects

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably already mastered the skill of counting. But just because something is easy doesn’t mean it’s enjoyable, so the makers of a documenting-scanning app for smartphones has added a new AI-powered feature that can automatically count up similar objects in a photo for you. This is truly a gift for…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Feb 11

This Siemens MRI Scanner Is a Beautiful Machine That Saves Lives

Siemens’ latest MRI machine (Magnetom Prisma Tim+Dot System 3 Tesla) is one of the most powerful, state of the art medical imaging devices in the marketplace. The first Magnetom Prisma 3-tesla MRI units was installed in the USA at the University of Minnesota a year ago. Now there are about 50 units in Europe, and…

Tech News Attila Nagy Apr 14

Creepy Portraits of People Taken by a Desktop Scanner

When you put sandwiches in a desktop scanner, the result is delicious. When you put humans, the result… lies somewhere in the uncanny valley. German artist Till Koeeneker created these full-size portraits of her closest friends and family members with an ordinary desktop scanner. Each one of these scanner portraits gets up close and personal,…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Jan 22

Rumor: HTC’s One Max Might Have a Fingerprint Scanner

One starts, then everyone follows. Well, possibly: leaked images of HTC’s rumored new One Max smartphone appear to show a fingerprint scanner nestled amongst its hardware, a la iPhone 5S. The pictures, which turned up on Chinese social network Sina Weibo, show the monstrous phone with its back removed, where a fingerprint scanner sits between…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Oct 7

Scanning Fast Food Makes Fast Food Look Even Worse

This isn’t exactly a news flash but hey, fast food isn’t good for you. And though sometimes that burger or that hot dog might look appetizing in your head, it never looks like that in real life. Jon Feinstein’s photography series about fast food takes the common items we know and love and uses a…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 17

This Is How a Medical Scanner Looks Without Its Skin

When you look at them in hospitals, CT (Computer Tomography) scanners look like devices from Star Trek’s Enterprise. When you look at them without their smooth futuristic covers on, they look like tired engine parts from the Battlestar Galactica. But the most amazing thing is how it works. You won’t believe how fast this huge…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 30

Watch an ant colony take up residence inside a scanner over five years

Most people try to keep ants out of their electronics equipment, but François Vautier isn’t most people. He encouraged an ant colony to nest inside an old scanner, and then scanned the bed once a week for five years, showing the colony’s gradual takeover of their metal and plastic home. Vautier explains the purpose behind…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 10

The NYPD Wants Mobile Weapon Scanners for Drive-By Patdowns

The NYPD is in hot water with civil rights groups over its controversial Stop-and-Frisk policy. But, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly has a solution—handheld weapons scanners that see guns under clothing! Fourth Amendment? What’s that? As Kelly told a State of the NYPD breakfast Tuesday, the department is developing a mobile, infrared scanner mechanism that would…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jan 17

Doxie Go Scans On Its Own and Is Now iOS Friendly

The original version won our affections with a lovely heart graphic on the scanning button, but Doxie’s latest portable scanner is all business, doing its thing without even the need for a USB connection to a computer. https://gizmodo.com/doxie-scanner-uploads-straight-to-the-cloud-5441406 Besides a rechargeable lithium-ion battery that’s good for ingesting about 100 documents, the Doxie Go also features…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Oct 18

The mobiUS Is An Ultrasound Machine That’ll Fit In Your Pocket

Windows Mobile may be ancient technology for those using an iPhone or Android handset, but for industry applications like the MobiUS SP1 mobile ultrasound system, the now two-year old operating system is just perfect. The mobiUS is simply a small ultrasound wand that’s attached to a Toshiba TG01 handset running Windows Mobile 6.5. The system…

Gadgets Kelly Oct 11

Ortho-Tag Uses RFID To Identify Your Implants

When you have a prosthetic device implanted in your body, how do you retrieve information about it? You can’t look at the bottom for a model number and you don’t want to go under the knife to find the manufacturer. Orthopedic surgeon Lee Berger along with Marlin Mickle of the University of Pittsburgh developed a…

Tech News Kelly Jun 13

Cornell’s $500,000 Micro-CT Scanner Lets You See Small Things in Color 3D

Cornell is the place to go if you like looking at small things with expensive machinery. The University recently made its $500,000 micro-CT scanner available for public as well as academic usage. For $40 to $75 a pop, you can use the instrument to look inside stuff like a mouse heart, a fat deposit or…

Tech News Kelly May 27

This Backpack Looks Through Walls

Although the brick and concrete-penetrating Prism 200c can’t see through clothes like the perv-preferred Midnight Shot NV-1, it’s still pretty neat! The backpack-mounted scanner uses ultra-wideband radio waves to scan a room for baddies before they know you’re there. https://gizmodo.com/pervert-alert-this-camera-can-see-through-clothes-5794514 The pack even allows for quasi-3D perspective shifting, so that you can pick the best…

Tech News Sam Biddle May 3

An iPhone App That Scans the Stuff You Buy in the Supermarket

I love supermarkets. The ginormousness and excessiveness of everything makes me happy. But I hate waiting in line in supermarkets. Seriously, I have to stand and wait in this line for 5 minutes in order to give you my money? But no more! I’m only shopping at Stop and Shop from now on, a supermarket…

Tech News Casey Chan Apr 25

The Department of Homeland Security’s Plans to Digitally Strip Search You Nearly Everywhere

This is nefarious-sounding: The Department of Homeland Security “spent millions of dollars on mobile body scanner technology that could be used at railways, stadiums, and elsewhere,” according to a trove of documents obtained via FOIA by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. The documents, beginning with one titled “Rail Security Pilot Study Phase II at PATH,”…

Privacy & Security Matt Buchanan Mar 3

This Star Trek-Style Scanner Tells If You’re Healthy Or Not

I never thought I would live to see something like this: A hand held scanner that can detect if a patient is healthy or not just by pointing it at the skin. It seems out of Star Trek, but it is real and it works today. The scanner has been developed over a five-year period…

Health Jesus Diaz Feb 16

The First MRI of Birth: A Baby Looking At His Mom’s Vagina

Berlin doctors have captured the first ever MRI images of a baby being born. It’s nice to know that the miracle of birth is just as disgustingly beautiful inside, as it is outside. The doctors at Berlin’s Charité Hospital created a special “open” MRI scanner (most are tube shaped) to give the necessary room for…

Tech News Casey Chan Dec 7

This Lady Made A DIY TSA-Like Body Scanner

Jeri Ellsworth probably saw all the fun the TSA was having with their scanners and decided, ‘hey, maybe I can build my own’. And by hacking a satellite dish to act as her backscatter and centimeter wave scanner, she did. Jeri lists clear instructions and gives a brief explainer on how it all works in…

Tech News Casey Chan Dec 4

Quit Throwing Airport Security Tantrums and Let Me Fly in Peace

Brian Sodergren, the man behind the National Opt-Out Day movement is currently traveling by car—effectively opting-out of Opt-Out Day. You’re currently pissing off a TSA agent by demonstrating your principles. I really hate both of you. Here’s the thing: There’s something exciting at the end of every flight I take—be it next month’s company party,…

Privacy & Security Rosa Golijan Nov 24

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Here’s What the Furby and Other Gadgets Look Like in a CT Scanner

This App Uses Your Phone’s Camera to Automatically Count Up a Pile of Objects

This Siemens MRI Scanner Is a Beautiful Machine That Saves Lives

Creepy Portraits of People Taken by a Desktop Scanner

Rumor: HTC’s One Max Might Have a Fingerprint Scanner

Scanning Fast Food Makes Fast Food Look Even Worse

This Is How a Medical Scanner Looks Without Its Skin

Watch an ant colony take up residence inside a scanner over five years

The NYPD Wants Mobile Weapon Scanners for Drive-By Patdowns

Doxie Go Scans On Its Own and Is Now iOS Friendly

The mobiUS Is An Ultrasound Machine That’ll Fit In Your Pocket

Ortho-Tag Uses RFID To Identify Your Implants

Cornell’s $500,000 Micro-CT Scanner Lets You See Small Things in Color 3D

This Backpack Looks Through Walls

An iPhone App That Scans the Stuff You Buy in the Supermarket

The Department of Homeland Security’s Plans to Digitally Strip Search You Nearly Everywhere

This Star Trek-Style Scanner Tells If You’re Healthy Or Not

The First MRI of Birth: A Baby Looking At His Mom’s Vagina

This Lady Made A DIY TSA-Like Body Scanner

Quit Throwing Airport Security Tantrums and Let Me Fly in Peace

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