Digitize a book as fast as fanning through pages

Michael Chang , Mar 21, 2010; 04:29 a.m.

"Meet Masatoshi Ishikawa, a professor at the University of Tokyo. Ishikawa is well known in robotics circles for his Matrix bullet time-style amazing demos -- like a robo-hand that can dribble a ball and catch objects in midair with superhuman dexterity. How he does it? A Super Vision Chip (that's what he calls it) that can "see" events too fast for the eye."

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JDM von Weinberg , Mar 21, 2010; 01:28 p.m.

I am still engaged in a long-term effort to digitize some 19th c books printed on high acid paper, but while I remain hopeful for the future, I just can't imagine that human flipping is ever going to produce images of sufficient quality for optical character recognition. It might be good enough for a non-OCR scan of a Clancy or King novel where you would be happy to miss pages. ;)

Bernie Moore CT , Mar 21, 2010; 02:14 p.m.

Great for digitizing old manuscripts. JDM this is only a prototype. Wait till you s the Mark VII. I have to think that all current books are electronically stored. I can download a book into my Nook in about 30 seconds. This was really handy while I was recuperating from my kneed replacement. Still, I can't see the guy thumbing through a Guggenheim.

Christine Mitchell , Mar 22, 2010; 10:46 a.m.

That is so cool. Gotta respect those geniuses...

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