LG's Got a Mouse that Doubles As a Scanner

[JMcEntegart]

These days scanners aren’t exactly at the top of wish lists when it comes to must have pieces of tech so it makes sense that we don’t see all that many at the Consumer Electronics Show...

LG's Got a Mouse that Doubles As a Scanner : Read more

 

[shovenose]

interesting idea!

 

[harth13]

only if I'm going to scan passports....not an A4

 

[11796pcs]

I don't even want to know how much that costs.

 

[dragonfang18]

How accurate is the scanning? Like what if I wildly swing it around the page?

 

[kronos_cornelius]

Works as a James Bond toy !

I've had the same scanner for 10 years, I don't see myself getting a new one... even if it breaks. I can just use my camera.

 

[slothy89]

+1 kronos

Cameras are more than adequate scanners for most purposes (ie what this mouse would be used for) and is FAR quicker for anything bigger than a credit card >.<

I think they just got bored and thought "what can we add to a mouse that no-one else has?"

interesting concept, but about 5 years too late....

 

[alyoshka]

Well, looks like a very handy peripheral but suppose I would like to select the scanning area??? Will the mouse work simultaneously or is it going to be like freeze image and then select....
Could get annoying at times while playing Crysis although....
But a really cool thing to have on the desk for people who don't have tons of scanning to do, just a once in a blue moon thing it'd be fine.....

 

[razor512]

Seems cool but it is wired and seems to have a very small scan area. How many things does the average person scan, and on top of that how many of those things will be about the size of a credit card?

The constraints are too much for it to be useful and knowing these companies and that they cant give a price range means that it will most likely be more expensive than a decent USB $30 scanner that can do a full 8.5x11 page with space left over and at 600 dpi.

This is simple a case of a company wanting to be so secretive that they fail to consult with the consumers first before completely going out with the products.

More intelligent companies (eg dell and logitech) since they had a couple of product failures in the past have started to do very early beta testing on some incomplete items to get an idea of if many consumers will even like the product enough to want to spend the asking price for it. (and have canceled a few products because of it)

 

[wildwell]

Hmmm.....

 

[bv90andy]

[citation][nom]kronos_cornelius[/nom]Works as a James Bond toy !I've had the same scanner for 10 years, I don't see myself getting a new one... even if it breaks. I can just use my camera.[/citation]
been there, done that. I've used a camera as a scanner for years up until I had to buy a new printer and got a multi-functional one. (HP, they suck, drivers AND hardware)

 

[eddieroolz]

Idiot proof, but meh...

 

[gsacks]

Yes to all the comments about cameras working as a scanner, but I can see a use case for this. But they need to make it in a form factor that makes sense for laptops. And it should be wireless.

 

[christop]

Might be good for business.

 

[tayb]

They better have some nice accompanying software to piece together full size documents from shaky-handed scanning people. Also, this software has to be stored in the mouse or the purpose of the device is lost.

 

[dkant1n]

I really don't see this as a killer product. Scanners are very cheap these days (or a multifunction printer) and you get a very good quality scann. As harth13 says the problem will be large scanns, and by large I mean A4 for this mouse

 

[highflyer24]

I saw it at the booth - amazing stuff. It can even scanned things larger than A3!

 

[terrabait]

highflyer24: +1

Maybe this video will answer some questions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt4LpLOx0j4