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Pandigital, Inc., was a digital photo-frame manufacturer founded in 1998 that around 2010 began to expand its product line to include e-reader, tablets and e-books. Its tablet products included the Planet, Novel, Star, Nova, and SuperNova, and an offline Wikipedia reader called WikiReader .
Hand-held document scanners are manual devices that are dragged or gilded across the surface of the image to be scanned by hand, also known as wand scanners. [20] Scanning documents in this manner requires a steady hand, as an uneven scanning rate produces distorted images; an indicator light on the scanner indicates if motion is too fast.
Barcode reader. A barcode reader or barcode scanner is an optical scanner that can read printed barcodes and send the data they contain to computer. [ 1] Like a flatbed scanner, it consists of a light source, a lens, and a light sensor for translating optical impulses into electrical signals. Additionally, nearly all barcode readers contain ...
Pandigital's latest, the Personal Photo Scanner/Converter, helps to cut down on that process -- a little bit, anyway. ... which would make this thing truly portable, but for $149.99 you can't have ...
Pandigital number. In mathematics, a pandigital number is an integer that in a given base has among its significant digits each digit used in the base at least once. For example, 1234567890 (one billion two hundred thirty-four million five hundred sixty-seven thousand eight hundred ninety) is a pandigital number in base 10.
Type. Sensor. Affiliation. Starfleet. A tricorder is a fictional handheld sensor that exists in the Star Trek universe. The tricorder is a multifunctional hand-held device that can perform environmental scans, data recording, and data analysis; hence the word "tricorder" to refer to the three functions of sensing, recording, and computing.
The Palm TX. A personal digital assistant (PDA) is a multi-purpose mobile device which functions as a personal information manager. Following a boom in the 1990's and 2000's, PDA's were mostly displaced by the widespread adoption of more highly capable smartphones, in particular those based on iOS and Android in the late 2000's, and thus saw a rapid decline.
The Magic Wand Reader device. Produced by Texas Instruments, the Magic Wand Reader (introduced in 1982 as the Magic Wand Speaking Reader [1]) was an educational device that used a handheld wand that one would slide over "Talking Tracks" in order to read along with educational books. Bill Cosby was initially a spokesman for this device.