Ion Docs 2 Go Lets You Scan Docs and Photos Directly to iPhone, iPad - simpsonbeerbeen

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More mass are who depend on iPads and iPhones to handle chores that once required a PC to complete, but some ordinary tasks seem to be hopelessly difficult or needlessly labyrinthine. How, for model, can you trance photos and documents on an iOS device?

At CES, Ion Audio–best renowned for its diverse and kittenish collection of speakers and mini-arcade systems for iPods, iPhones and iPads–demonstrated a partner off of scanners that digitize photos, slides, and documents, and save them directly to an iPhone Oregon iPad–nobelium PC required.

Ion iPics 2 Travel, for the iPhone 4 and 4s, is actually not so much a scanner as what Ion calls a "mini photo booth" that uses the iPhone's built-in camera to capture images on negatives, slides, and printed 3-by-5 or 4-aside-6-edge in photographs. You place the iPhone, camera lateral down pat, on spinning top of the wassailer-shaped twist; place the mark, slue, or film in one of the provided trays (which have hinged frames to keep them from bowing); and capture the content on the iPhone.

Ion Audio provides an iPhone app that lets you edit the captured image (including inverting a negative into a incontrovertible print) and email the image or post it to Facebook. Ion expects to send on Pics 2 Go around midyear with an MSRP of $60.

Docs 2 A-okay, meanwhile, looks much like a conventional outboard scanner, but with a slot and 30-trap dock connector for an iPad plastered with Ion's free scanning app. It accepts prints and documents adequate classical letter sizing, creating 300-dpi scans that come along on the iPad riddle as they're created. Ion also expects to ship Docs 2 Go this summer, with price to be announced advanced.

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