To the naked eye — even the practiced eye of most bartenders and police officers — the counterfeits look perfect.
A phony South Carolina driver’s license was found in the hip pocket of 20-year-old Craig Eney after the fleeing motorcycle he was driving hit a curb, scraping past a utility pole hurling him to his death.
Continue reading… “Counterfeit driver’s licenses look so real they’re dangerous”
Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2010
The Capture-ID™ mobile scanner is wireless, accurate, and quick for digital capture of documents and identity information away from the desk. This saves time, improves productivity, and reduces the risk and cost of handling paper. It is capable of scanning very close to its left edge, allowing capture of information close into the inside edge of a book, reducing the curvature distortion and strain on the binding typical of copiers and other scanners. Paralegals, insurance agents, realtors, and others can capture documents at their client’s site where a copier is unavailable and take it with them immediately. Two scans are stitched together to form a letter-size page, three scans for a legal-size page. (Pics)
E-waste might be one of the biggest misnomers in the history of nomery — the image it creates in the mind is of a bunch of email and document files clogging up your local internet pipes. The reality of it is that electronic waste is rapidly populating ever-growing landfill areas in so-called developing countries (they’re poor, just call a spade a spade) and the issue has now garnered the attention of the United Nations…
Continue reading… “United Nations Identifies e-waste as an Urgent And Growing Problem, Wants Change”
Amazon unveiled the Kindle DX this morning, an e-reader with a 9.7 inch screen that is 2.5 times larger than the Kindle 2, which debuted earlier this year. (Pics)
Continue reading… “Amazon Launches The New Kindle DX For Magazines, Newspapers and Textbooks”
Scientists in Israel are taking digital photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the aim of making the 2,000-year-old documents available to the public and researchers on the Internet.
Continue reading… “Dead Sea Scrolls To Go Digital”
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