Scanner
noun
A tool used to make a digital copy of images or documents.
I used the scanner to convert my old photos into digital format.
Often appears as...
- document scanner
- flatbed scanner
noun
A device used to examine, read or monitor something.
The airport security used a scanner to check my bags.
Often appears as...
- security scanner
- barcode scanner
noun
A device that electronically scans the body for medical purposes.
The doctor used a scanner to see the inside of my stomach.
Often appears as...
- mri scanner
- ct scanner
noun
A tool used to make a digital copy of images or documents.
I used the scanner to convert my old photos into digital format.
Often appears as...
- document scanner
- flatbed scanner
noun
A device used to examine, read or monitor something.
The airport security used a scanner to check my bags.
Often appears as...
- security scanner
- barcode scanner
noun
A device that electronically scans the body for medical purposes.
The doctor used a scanner to see the inside of my stomach.
Often appears as...
- mri scanner
- ct scanner
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Digital Conversion
Scanners transform physical items into digital files, commonly for storage or sharing.
She used a scanner at the library to digitize her family album.
Pro Tip 2/3Variety of Scanners
Different scanners exist for specific tasks such as scanning photographs, books or slides.
He bought a flatbed scanner for his extensive comic book collection.
Pro Tip 3/3Resolution Detail
Scanners have varying resolutions, affecting the clarity and detail of digital copies.
The historian chose a high-resolution scanner for the ancient manuscripts.
Pro Tip 1/3Digital Conversion
Scanners transform physical items into digital files, commonly for storage or sharing.
She used a scanner at the library to digitize her family album.
Pro Tip 2/3Variety of Scanners
Different scanners exist for specific tasks such as scanning photographs, books or slides.
He bought a flatbed scanner for his extensive comic book collection.
Pro Tip 3/3Resolution Detail
Scanners have varying resolutions, affecting the clarity and detail of digital copies.
The historian chose a high-resolution scanner for the ancient manuscripts.
Pro Tip 1/3Digital Conversion
Scanners transform physical items into digital files, commonly for storage or sharing.
She used a scanner at the library to digitize her family album.
Pro Tip 2/3Variety of Scanners
Different scanners exist for specific tasks such as scanning photographs, books or slides.
He bought a flatbed scanner for his extensive comic book collection.
Pro Tip 3/3Resolution Detail
Scanners have varying resolutions, affecting the clarity and detail of digital copies.
The historian chose a high-resolution scanner for the ancient manuscripts.
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The language of lying —...
and we spent much of our history coming up with ways to detect them, from medieval torture devices to polygraphs, blood-pressure and breathing monitors, voice-stress analyzers, eye trackers, infrared brain scanners, and even the 400-pound electroencephalogram. But although such tools have worked under certain circumstances,
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Avi Rubin: All your...
and one little tiny turn of the switch. And so the researchers asked themselves, "I wonder how many times very secure, important, sensitive conversations are happening on these two-way radios where they forget to encrypt and they don't notice that they didn't encrypt?" So they bought a scanner. These are perfectly legal
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How playing an...
in understanding how our brains work by monitoring them in real time with instruments like fMRI and PET scanners. When people are hooked up to these machines, tasks, such as reading or doing math problems, each have corresponding areas of the brain where activity can be observed.
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Laser Scanning Reveals...
day and said well I built my Cathedral this way because and so I've been using more sophisticated technology these days to try to get new answers from the buildings the best technology to that could solve certain problems like this was the laser scanner it allows one
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Dog MRI PIPE Studying The...
to begin the first scan with the localize are you ready one of Greg's earliest experiments is revealing an important clue as to what happens in a dog's brain when it receives information from its senses first he's looking at a visual signal so Katie's in the scanner
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Love and hormones PIPE...
system we are putting people into brain scanners we've done two studies so far I'm working on it absolutely daily we're beginning to map some of the brain circuitry of personality style and won't go into that I will end with two things
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The Future of Flying...
And this makes for a very short mission life. The second problem is that these robots have onboard sensors that end up being very expensive -- a laser scanner, a camera and the processors. That drives up the cost of this robot.
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Prince William PIPE This...
the team behind the Moonshot united millions of people around the world -- that this crazy ambition wasn't so crazy after all. And along the way, it helped the invention of breathing equipment, CAT scanners and solar panels.
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Robots that fly ... and...
and you go outside into the real world? And what if there's no GPS? So this robot is actually equipped with a camera, and a laser rangefinder, laser scanner. And it uses these sensors to build a map of the environment.
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Why Are Manta Rays So...
nev is kind of a manta gynecologist he's using the world's first contactless underwater handheld ultrasound scanner on pregnant mantas
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The language of lying —...
and we spent much of our history coming up with ways to detect them, from medieval torture devices to polygraphs, blood-pressure and breathing monitors, voice-stress analyzers, eye trackers, infrared brain scanners, and even the 400-pound electroencephalogram. But although such tools have worked under certain circumstances,
Video examples
Avi Rubin: All your...
and one little tiny turn of the switch. And so the researchers asked themselves, "I wonder how many times very secure, important, sensitive conversations are happening on these two-way radios where they forget to encrypt and they don't notice that they didn't encrypt?" So they bought a scanner. These are perfectly legal
Video examples
How playing an...
in understanding how our brains work by monitoring them in real time with instruments like fMRI and PET scanners. When people are hooked up to these machines, tasks, such as reading or doing math problems, each have corresponding areas of the brain where activity can be observed.
Video examples
Laser Scanning Reveals...
day and said well I built my Cathedral this way because and so I've been using more sophisticated technology these days to try to get new answers from the buildings the best technology to that could solve certain problems like this was the laser scanner it allows one
Video examples
Dog MRI PIPE Studying The...
to begin the first scan with the localize are you ready one of Greg's earliest experiments is revealing an important clue as to what happens in a dog's brain when it receives information from its senses first he's looking at a visual signal so Katie's in the scanner
Video examples
Love and hormones PIPE...
system we are putting people into brain scanners we've done two studies so far I'm working on it absolutely daily we're beginning to map some of the brain circuitry of personality style and won't go into that I will end with two things
Video examples
The Future of Flying...
And this makes for a very short mission life. The second problem is that these robots have onboard sensors that end up being very expensive -- a laser scanner, a camera and the processors. That drives up the cost of this robot.
Video examples
Prince William PIPE This...
the team behind the Moonshot united millions of people around the world -- that this crazy ambition wasn't so crazy after all. And along the way, it helped the invention of breathing equipment, CAT scanners and solar panels.
Video examples
Robots that fly ... and...
and you go outside into the real world? And what if there's no GPS? So this robot is actually equipped with a camera, and a laser rangefinder, laser scanner. And it uses these sensors to build a map of the environment.
Video examples
Why Are Manta Rays So...
nev is kind of a manta gynecologist he's using the world's first contactless underwater handheld ultrasound scanner on pregnant mantas
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Virginia Postrel
American Writer
Fit experts envision a future in which you'd carry your body scan in your cell phone or on a thumb drive, using the data to order clothes online or find them in stores. But who's going to pay for all those scanners, which cost about $35,000 each, and the staff to run them?
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Marc Guggenheim
American Writer
We're not militant, but there are certain things that are absolutely secret. There was a pilot printed on red paper, and I read everything on my iPad and have a scanner on my desk for these purposes. I scanned in the script, and red paper script scans in perfectly fine.
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Aaron Patzer
American Businessman
At 16, I started a web development business and had clients from the Netherlands, Caribbean, and across the country - none of whom knew my age because I could conduct all my business with a phone, scanner, and the Internet.
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Dan Gilroy
American Writer
A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in New York. He was the first person to put a police scanner in a car and drive around.
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Dana Priest
American Journalist
When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
American Historian
I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.
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Bre Pettis
American Businessman
When we looked out at the world and saw what 3D scanners could do, we wanted to make something that could make really high quality models that you could create on your MakerBot.
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Sourav Ganguly
Indian Entertainer
When you play cricket for India, you are always under the scanner. You are always judged by others; you have to live up to it all.
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Isaac Yeffet
Israeli Public Servant
Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?
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Evgeny Morozov
Belarusian Writer
WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire U.S. government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.
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Virginia Postrel
American Writer
Fit experts envision a future in which you'd carry your body scan in your cell phone or on a thumb drive, using the data to order clothes online or find them in stores. But who's going to pay for all those scanners, which cost about $35,000 each, and the staff to run them?
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Marc Guggenheim
American Writer
We're not militant, but there are certain things that are absolutely secret. There was a pilot printed on red paper, and I read everything on my iPad and have a scanner on my desk for these purposes. I scanned in the script, and red paper script scans in perfectly fine.
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Aaron Patzer
American Businessman
At 16, I started a web development business and had clients from the Netherlands, Caribbean, and across the country - none of whom knew my age because I could conduct all my business with a phone, scanner, and the Internet.
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Dan Gilroy
American Writer
A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in New York. He was the first person to put a police scanner in a car and drive around.
Quote examples
Dana Priest
American Journalist
When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
American Historian
I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.
Quote examples
Bre Pettis
American Businessman
When we looked out at the world and saw what 3D scanners could do, we wanted to make something that could make really high quality models that you could create on your MakerBot.
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Sourav Ganguly
Indian Entertainer
When you play cricket for India, you are always under the scanner. You are always judged by others; you have to live up to it all.
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Isaac Yeffet
Israeli Public Servant
Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?
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Evgeny Morozov
Belarusian Writer
WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire U.S. government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.
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