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Business professionals are always on the go, so they don’t always have access to the luxuries of the office. Just because they’re on the road, however, doesn’t mean that they need to leave all of their gadgetry behind. The Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 Portable PDF Scanner is just as powerful as many other scanners that are easily several times its size. It’s not a flatbed scanner, so it won’t be able to handle books and other thicker items, but it will take single sheets of paper without a hitch. Better still, because it has an automatic paper feeder and dual scanning heads, the ScanSnap S300 can perform full duplex scanning in a single pass.

I had the chance to review the ScanSnap S300 for Mobile Magazine and I have to say that I was very impressed. The build quality is absolutely top-notch and the resulting PDF files are great. It also has OCR software, so it’ll be able to recognize any text that it scans. On the downside, the S300 is definitely on the heavier side of things, so you may not want to lug it around with you all day. The heavier weight does speak to the quality and workmanship that went into the product though.

A major advantage that this scanner has over some of its direct competitors — other than being the world’s smallest full duplex ADF scanner — is that the Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 does not require power from a wall outlet. In an act of true portability, the S300 can draw its power from an available USB port on your laptop. It would have been nice to have a battery backup option as well, but this is a great option as well.

The Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 Portable PDF Scanner is available now for $295. Yeah, it’s not exactly cheap, but you do get what you pay for.

Congratulations to this weeks new geek Mike. This weeks questions are:

1.  What does APC stand for?

2.  What came first ATAPI or ATARI?

3.  What is used in telephony to describe the process of removing echo from a voice communication in order to improve voice quality on a telephone call?

4.  What is a cell relay, packet switching network and data link layer protocol which encodes data traffic into small fixed-sized cells?

5.  What does ACCM stand for?

This week the Vancouver 2010 mascots were released to the public. A lot of criticism from the public came from these mascots, none of them positive. One SFU professor even went as far to say that the mascots are a marketing mistake.

As a marketing person I am always looking to see how well others market. Since the launch I have been showing friends and people of various age groups the pictures of the mascots (below) and anyone over the age of 15 has had a negative response immediately.  

 

Taking it one step further I have been showing the mascots video to the same people and for some reason it almost turns in to a positive experience. It must be the humanizing of the video.

What do you think of the mascots both before and after watching the video?

My favorite is Quatchi. Which one is your favorite?