LG Mouse Weirdly Doubles as a Scanner...
The idea of handheld scanners is about as old scanner technology itself. Back in the day, handheld scanners were a very frugal alternative to "flatbed" scanners which usually cost a heck of a lot more! Of course, those days are long gone and about the only area that handheld scanners has managed to keep a toe-hold in is in business card readers/scanners; but that is about the only area we can think of where handheld scanners have not been relegated to the past. Well, it seems that LG, seems to want to change all that with a very "unique" idea: the LG LSM-100 mouse and handheld scanner combination peripheral. On the surface this does seem like a very good and yet very odd pairing as you don't think of a mouse as an optical scanner, but in many ways that is exactly what a optical mouse is: a scanner that scans a small area quickly and continuously to track movement! We are not exactly sure if up-sizing this idea (by adding in 5 LEDs, a relatively large mirror and a bigger optical scanner) and turning your wired mouse into a scanner will catch on, but this 5 LED, 300 dpi scanner + wired optical mouse may just be kitschy enough to gain traction in what is becoming a sea of homogeneous mice! No word on release date or pricing is available right now, but we are sure that if the MSC-500 Mouse Scale can make it to market so too can this!
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IronClad Secure Drive Just Got an Upgrade! Faster. Better. Stronger.
When it comes to government workers and government agencies, security is always paramount and style always takes a back seat. With the new US Telework Enhancement Act of 2010, security is still paramount but the layers of security now have to work over an even broader range of workers and their needs. In the past IronClad USB drives and their software was pretty darn good, but it appears Lockheed Martin was not willing to rest on its laurels as they are touting the new and improved IronClad software as the perfect companion for government workers working in the field and in their home. Yes Lockheed Martin really seems to have made the IronClad drives even better than they already were! With the release of IronClad 1.6, Lockheed Martin says that it is now able to play nice with even more computers, more WiFi configurations and all round work within more users specific needs and be faster while doing all that! This certainly is a good thing as any IT security staff will tell you: the security is only as good as the people using it and if your product is too difficult to use... they won't use it! Add in enhanced management tools to make the IT admin's life easier when (not if) a drive goes missing and it sounds like Lockheed Martin really is seriously going after another slice of the government security sector.
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