Another gadget from the Consumer Electronics Show that is intriguing is a pen size color scanner. I was pretty skeptical when I read about this; years ago I had a big, clunky, handheld black and white scanner that you could roll across a document. It was awful; no matter how hard you tried, you got blurry, uneven scans. It's main attribute was its price, which I think was a couple of hundred dollars, at a time when a flat bed scanner cost several thousand dollars. Nonetheless, the money was wasted.
But this little pen, which scans in high resolution, 24 bit color, may actually work if the sample scans the company provides are any indication. This scan of a letter is crisp and clear, and the scan of a black and white cartoon is also excellent.
How many times have you read something in a magazine or newspaper and thought, "I'd like to save that?" This little pen is just the right size to make that quick and easy.