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Flexible scanner works on curved surfaces

By Celeste Biever

22 December 2004

AN IMAGE scanner built into a piece of flexible plastic little bigger than a credit card has been developed in Japan.

The idea is that you will plug the scanner into a mobile phone which will both provide power for it and act as its display and storage medium. And because it is flexible, it will let you copy just about anything, even if it’s on a curved surface such as an open book or the label on a wine bottle.

The lightweight device, unveiled last week at an electronics conference in San Francisco, is the latest development in the…

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