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- dakilla91, on 09/07/2008, -4/+679The music made it sound like some porno movie...
- randylm, on 09/07/2008, -3/+352Yea, it's cool, but I could have done with out the video production. Just show us the scanner! Skip the first minute unless you wanna see dramatic video of books.
- LimeParrot, on 09/07/2008, -3/+243up...down...up...down
I think it WAS a porno ... O_O - YonicSouth, on 09/07/2008, -2/+182But can it do pop-up books?
- thetanbark, on 09/07/2008, -1/+150Librarian porn.
- Bovorik, on 09/07/2008, -7/+130Digg for the porn music.
- Hakonan, on 09/07/2008, -3/+116Oh lord, ScanRobot? That was one exceptionally crappy name.
- passedoutghost, on 09/07/2008, -6/+102What's an ass-book?
- BatCountry, on 09/07/2008, -4/+93How very oddly sexual. Ill never look at a book the same way again...
- dazparkour, on 09/07/2008, -2/+89I spy a C++ bible.
- Murdats, on 09/07/2008, -2/+79tell me about it, I felt I was watching some sort of weird book porn for most of it.
- Enasni1212, on 09/07/2008, -1/+62The music had me more in the mindset of book porn.
- Dimecross, on 09/07/2008, -0/+59Also too bad most book publishers would throw the biggest fits imaginable when they see how easy it would be to electronically duplicate and distribute the books they sell to schools at outrageously inflated prices.
- crazysamz, on 09/07/2008, -1/+57Nice. They should make these available at your local library and fedex kinkos so that we can digitize our own books. That way I could go to the library, have them digitize and then email me some pdf files of all of my high school books and use them on my eeepc 100 instead of carrying 5 books everyday. Then I would only be carrying a 3-pound multi-purpose book storage container and pc for schoolwork. Too bad this thing probably costs a fortune and won't be in our library's anytime soon.
- RaynOfDarkness, on 09/07/2008, -4/+52That's the sexiest scanner advertisement i've ever watched!
- Matsky, on 09/07/2008, -1/+47No way it'd scan new books though (especially paperbacks). You would never be able to sit them in there and open the cover. Seems like it's only good for old or well-read books that don't have a lot of resistance to being opened up easilly. I also reckon some pages might be missed as they're sort of sucked accross with the first if you get what I mean (you know when you turn a page and one just sorta comes with it). I love the old 70s dials and woodgrain finish though lol - classy!
- HallenbeckJoe, on 09/07/2008, -2/+42Diversity is the key to the frontpage.
- Ikulus, on 09/07/2008, -1/+36Check part 2 for the actual demo without 3 minutes of porn music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y16rNqnxj0U - Elgindoo, on 09/07/2008, -44/+77Really?
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Cool gizmo tho. - smotpoker, on 09/07/2008, -1/+29Pffft, Johnny5 was WAY faster
- lebatte, on 09/07/2008, -0/+25It was the sort of music I imagine people who invent scanners listen to.
- jynweythek, on 09/17/2008, -2/+26I feel... strangely aroused...
- morpo, on 09/07/2008, -1/+24I actually hit the mute button watching this, afraid my roomate was going to think it was porn.
- thcobbs, on 09/07/2008, -5/+27Not to mention the thrusting of the machine itself
- nemodot, on 09/07/2008, -0/+22Yes, outrageously inflated prices like the 800 argentine pesos i would have to pay if I wanted the original copy of a molecular biology book from an north-american author. It's ridicously expensive to me. So I went to the dark side and bought an ilegal copy for 53 pesos.
- TrevorPace, on 09/07/2008, -1/+20Bow-chika-wow wow
- jackwaters, on 09/07/2008, -6/+25Why did the music at the start sound like it's straight from some porn movie?
- sporg, on 09/07/2008, -0/+18You can already get many textbooks in digital format for free from www.textbooktorrents.com ( tracker is back online).The publishers have already had fits about it.
- Ibox, on 09/07/2008, -0/+18So you'll keep watching.
- Shawn4168, on 09/07/2008, -2/+20Skip the first 50 seconds or so, unless you're into stuff like book porn.
- MrSmith34, on 09/07/2008, -1/+18take that Gutenberg Printing Press!
- h4mx0r, on 09/07/2008, -0/+17Mmm, oh that's some sexy bindings you got there...
- mynameistux, on 09/07/2008, -4/+20DO NOT QUESTION THE GREAT ALGORITHM!
ALL HAIL THE DIGG ALGORITHM!
CAPS LOCK IS COOL! - cwbypete, on 09/07/2008, -3/+18Johnny Five was faster.
- hcl40u, on 09/07/2008, -2/+17When he picked up the large book I was thinking "That ones too big!"
- cwbypete, on 09/07/2008, -2/+16Yet here you are :/
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+14It's not that hard, it does say 2 pages every 3 seconds and if we take 3600 seconds (1 hour) / 3 seconds = 1200 * 2 = 2400 pages / hour.
- pintomp3, on 09/07/2008, -0/+14what file format would you save it in if it could?
- inactive, on 09/07/2008, -1/+14Where is the video of grass growing?
- comply, on 09/07/2008, -3/+16what's an ass book?
- thepretext, on 09/07/2008, -2/+14I came.
- djlethal, on 09/07/2008, -1/+13ZZzzzz
- Chairboy, on 09/07/2008, -1/+13Vernor Vinge's book 'Rainbows End' has a unique book scanner. It was a woodchipper with many high resolution cameras arranged around the exit. Books would be fed into the chipper, and the tiny shredded flecks would be visually captured as they were blown out. The computer would have 3d representations of each tiny shred of paper because multiple cameras had visualized it, and it would then look for other scraps that had compatible edges in the same time frame and piece them together digitally.
Terribly entertaining and horrible to visualize, but technically possible. - publiclurker, on 09/07/2008, -1/+13Are you sure about that sinkhead? Every time the scanner head raises it scans the two pages it's sucked to itself.
- cygnus2112, on 09/07/2008, -3/+14Or even more unthinkable.. ask publishers to archive their Illustrator/Corel Draw/whatever files so that digital formats could be automatically formatted and made available so we don't have to build large robots to scan each of their books a few years down the road.
- torontoliam, on 09/07/2008, -1/+11I thought that was in slow motion until I watched the second video. Not sure how it manages the 2400 pages per hour that it claims!
- sporg, on 09/07/2008, -1/+11I suspect that the books scanned by this will not be released to the general public like they should be but will be locked up with DRM in Google or some other conglomerates commercial collection. Digitized books which are beyond copyright should be released without restriction. Machines like this are reducing the effort required to scan a book so I dont want to hear them whining about how labour intensive it is anymore.
- XxpokemasterxX, on 09/07/2008, -0/+10fat books need loving too!
- Milo45, on 09/07/2008, -1/+11I never knew scanning books was so bad ass.
- JBSpeed88, on 09/07/2008, -0/+10Yeah, but can it field dress a moose?
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