Fairfax County voters will have a new option for casting their ballots Nov. 4, and it will look a lot like a high school math test. Fairfax officials have bought about 240 optical scanner machines, ...

Researchers have come up with an alternative to conventional adaptive driving beam systems: a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) optical scanner that relies on the piezoelectric effect of ...

From Disney World to the smartphone in your pocket, fingerprint scanners have become commonplace these days. Even budget phones sport the tech, sometimes alongside other biometric unlocking options ...

DURHAM – Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a low-cost, portable optical coherence tomography (OCT) scanner that promises to bring the vision-saving technology to underserved ...

The newest wonder of the electronic age is a machine that can read and digest and retain what it reads—even if it takes no special pleasure in curling up with a good book. Known in industry as the ...

Gone are the days when fingerprint scanners were limited to only the top-of-the-line smartphones. These days, phones priced as low as $100, come equipped with a fingerprint scanner to authenticate ...

The new trend in the smartphone industry is the placement of the fingerprint sensor under the display, allowing for a cleaner design smaller overall dimensions. UMIDIGI X is the first phone from the ...

A new report released Friday suggests that Apple’s upcoming iPhone will use optical finger scanning technology to hide the home button underneath the screen. The rumored iPhone 8 launch, set to take ...

Samsung's next Galaxy S phone is rumored to have an optical fingerprint scanner. Samsung manufacturing partner Synaptics just announced one of its own. Coincidence? Gordon Gottsegen is a tech writer ...

Plustek’s V100 BookReader device has just hit the computer peripherals scene, and though it’s innovative, it’s certainly some strange fruit. It’s an advanced optical scanner device that has optical ...