REVIEW >> Deep Shot is good for computer-to-phone transfers, and vice versa

 

Even though our computer and smartphones make our world easier to live in, it can be a pain to transfer the information back and forth.

Fortunately, Tsung-Hsiang Chang, an MIT Grad student and Google Inern, and Yang Li (also employed by Google) have created Deep Shot. Imagine doing something on your computer, like driving directions. Instead of going to the Navigation App on your smartphone and retyping everything again, you can just take a picture of the screen, and what was on the PC will be on your phone.

The reverse of this also works as well. So if you are doing something on your mobile phone and you want to type it up on your computer, just Deep Shot it from the mobile to the PC. You can watch a video of it after the jump for more information.

This would be good if you don’t have to go through the rigamarole of entering in your password every time you do a transfer. By the way, isn’t there a service known as Chrome to Phone that does the same thing? Leave a comment if you know the answer.

Whatever this case, I would like to have Deep Shot on my computer and smartphone right now. Google, if you can hear me (and I know that you can), please get Deep Shot into some sort of App form, please.

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REVIEW: Agfaphoto AS1150 Negative Film Scanner

With the popularity of digital cameras today, using classic cameras that uses film negatives seem to have become obsolete. The use of film comes with an inconvenience that you need to have it developed professionally in order to get a copy of a picture, unlike a digital camera which provides a digitized copy that can be stored in a computer and printed at any time. But still those old film negatives may hold memorable images that may also need to be stored before they get destroyed forever. You may now be able to digitize those old film negatives by using the Agfaphoto AS1150 Negative Film Scanner.

The Agfaphoto AS1150 Negative Film Scanner allows you to scan those old negative film of cameras past and convert them into its digitized form. It can also scan A6 photos and can either store the digitized versions via memory card or displayed via a photo frame when connected with through USB. The Agfaphoto AS1150 can scan for up to 1800 x 1200 pixels picture resolution. The Agfaphoto AS1150 Nagative Film Scanner is available at Sagemcom 100 Euros or around US$148.

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Review: Novac Simply Scan Business Card Manager

Business people building networks usually have a collection of business cards. A considerable network of contacts can result in a bulky business card collection that can be quite a hassle to have. Business professionals may find the technology offered by the Novac Simply Scan Business Card Manager quite useful in this aspect.

The Novac Simply Scan Business Card Manager is a handy device that allows you to scan business cards and keep a digital record of them with you. It comes with a dedicated OCR software that allows users to save the scanned business card details on Outlook or as a CSV file. The Novac Simply Scan Business Card Manager is currently available in Japan for now. It costs 9,800 Japanese Yen or around US$120 to have this ultra-light scanner on hand.

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