Imagine Objects
Pete, A friend of mine contacted the company. They sent him a beta version
of the manual. It looked interesting, but as you say, expensive. By an odd
coincidence, the laser bit was one approach I considered when I first
started hacking on a homebrew scanner. I couldn't convince myself that the
thing would read complex objects correctly… even after seeing it work on
one of those Discovery Channel techie shows. I decided to go mechanical. A
real Rube Goldberg contraption. 🙂 It's still too early to know if it will
work… and I keep changing my mind on the basic design.