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Two new autism detection methods are promising to offer clinicians objective diagnostic tools that are not based on subjective behavioral assessments. Both systems are in early stages of clinical verification but they enter a busy field of research into autism biomarkers.

Inkjet printers may be an inexpensive way to print out holiday snaps, but they can be fragile machines and end up at the city dump well before they hit kindergarten age. Italian maker Michele Lizzit has designed a way to make use of spent printers to build an operational 3D printer for just €10.

Portable document scanners are bulky, and mobile apps generally struggle to capture all the detail in documents written by hand. Adobe has tried to solve both those problems with Scan, a mobile app that delivers crystal clear scans on the fly.

Printer manufacturer Primera Technology has revealed what it reckons is the world's smallest, lightest all-in-one printer at this year's CES.

HP has revealed a new all-in-one computer named Sprout which pushes the everything-you-need-in-one-place envelope to both vertical and horizontal workspaces.

Intel has been working on a 3D scanner small enough to fit in the bezel of even the thinnest tablets. The company aims to have the technology in tablets from 2015, with CEO Brian Krzanich telling the crowd at MakerCon in New York on Thursday that he hopes to put the technology in phones as well.

Hong Kong-based company Design to Innovation (DTOI) has developed what it is claiming is the world's first wireless scanner mouse. The Zcan Wireless is designed as a standard optical mouse, but cuts the cord and packs a miniaturized scanner, enabling users to instantly scan images and text.

Portable scanners have been around for a while now, with devices like the Magic Wand and Doxie Go, and they continue to shrink in size. With its new PocketScan, Swiss-based software company Dacuda is now claiming to have developed the world's smallest wireless scanner.

Pathway Innovations and Technologies has updated its document camera line with what's billed as the world’s first 4K, USB 3.0 document camera with full-motion video: the Hovercam Solo 8.

By using raw data from Multi Slice Computerized Tomography (MSCT) and processing it through sophisticated software on high performance computer systems, Malaysian entrepreneur Mathavan (Matt) Chandran, hopes to largely negate the need to slice open bodies at autopsy.

I.R.I.S. has released its Windows-only IRIScan wired mouse/scanner.

MakerBot founder Bre Pettis has announced a desktop 3D scanner dubbed the MakerBot Digitizer.