The pen may be mightier than the sword, but a pen-sized color scanner is pretty hot, too.
The $300 DocuPen from Planon Systems Solutions Inc., Mississauga, Ontario, is one of the latest gee-whiz devices to leverage the magic of flash memory and miniaturize a useful tool. And while its 8 megabytes of on-board memory won’t go more than a couple of full letter-sized pages at the highest, full-color resolution, the memory is expandable. With the MicroSD cards running at about $20 a gigabyte these days, capacity isn’t an issue
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The scanner is simple to set up and use and it is happy with either Macs or PCs. Buttons on the back let you select black and white, color document or color photo color quality modes in either standard 100-dpi or high 400-dpi resolution. Custom configuration of the scan specifications is also possible through the included
Parallel rollers on the bottom make it easy to track smoothly across the page and a warning light lets you know if you are going too fast. Other light patterns give you a read on available memory and remaining battery capacity.
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