Symbol handheld bar code scanners from Motorola are useful for scanning information from product package bar codes into your computer. Because it is portable and handheld, the Symbol scanner is very ...

Flatbed scanners create digital files from the images and text on paper documents. Hook up a flatbed scanner to the USB port on your laptop to make a digital copy of receipts, letters, financial ...

We’ve got two hacks in one from [Serge Rabyking] on fingerprint scanning. Just before leaving on a trip he bought a laptop on the cheap. He didn’t pay much attention to the features and was ...

Convenience and good software help to compensate for a high price tag. Hmm, I thought Doxie Go was the best one on the market, but I agree about the price tag. It did seem a bit much. The one feature ...

Biometric security, at least in theory, has been around for a decade. But the use of biometrics for computer security and user authentication has failed to attract much practical interest to date ...

IBM announced on Monday the launch of a new line of ThinkPad notebooks designed to provide an extra layer of data protection through advanced fingerprint technology. The biometric capability will be ...

Going through Security is one of the more tedious aspects of air travel, especially given the need to remove laptops, iPads and liquids from bags, which makes the process even slower … But that could ...

I like the term laplet for any device that functions as a real laptop and a tablet. There’s some debate over when to use the term, but the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 matches up nicely with my definition. It’s ...