Last year a chance meeting brought the negatives out into the open and eventually to a digital scanner with the work being catalogued by a team of volunteers.

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Despite that, over 9, 000 kits each with a laptop, a digital camera, a fingerprint scanner and a card printer will be dispatched across the country, reaching their destinations by air, down bumpy bush tracks or on the dugout canoes that ply Congo's rivers.

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New Zealand's Industrial Research looks to be attracting quite a bit of interest in its prototype handheld 3D scanner, snagging fellow New Zealanders Weta Digital to help put the technology through its paces and now hoping the police will hop on board to put the scanner to more grisly uses.

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The scanner itself consists of a digital camera with an on-board laser that determines the distance to the object, although it also apparently requires that targets be placed around the scene to properly scan the object -- or person, as the case may be.

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Future capabilities, Mr Murphy hopes, might include a digital stethoscope to analyse breathing sounds and a haematoma scanner to look for a brain haemorrhage.

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With a background in digital imaging, Sareen set out to make an inexpensive body scanner that could utilize Tukatech's technology to better serve the clothes-buying public.

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On Saturday I hooked up a scanner to my computer so I could take some of my old-school drawings and add digital effects.

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