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Products> High-Tech Hardware for Architects

The right hardware can go a long way toward easing the design process. From analyzing infrastructure and documenting site conditions to monitoring construction and updating archives, there’s a tool for every task.

Laser Scanner Focus3D X Series

FARO

These ultra-portable scanners enable fast, straightforward, and accurate measurements of objects and buildings. They record architectural façades, complex structures, production and supply facilities, accident sites, and large-volume components. Models are equipped with GPS and offer the possibility to perform scanning even in bright sunlight. Remote scanning as well as almost limitless scan data sharing via SCENE Webshare Cloud make the laser scanning solution truly mobile.

Instant Transmitting Paper to iPad Pen

Hammacher Schlemmer

This pen digitizes handwriting to instantly transmit notes written on paper to an iPad. Combining the ease of handwriting with the convenience of electronic backup, editing, and emailing without the tedious steps of retyping or scanning, the comfortable stylus writes like a familiar ballpoint pen, and it pairs with a small 3” receiver clipped at the top of any piece of paper. The Bluetooth device transmits handwritten notes or drawings to a tablet or smartphone. The pen is ideal for sharing sketches on social media, marking up work files by hand, or jotting a missive in a cramped airplane seat while your tablet stays packed away. The receiver stores up to 100 pages of content. Compatible with iPad, iPad Air, iPad Mini, and iPhone 6, 5/5s/iTouch 5c, or 4/4s.

GigapixelCam X10

EarthCam

This camera is capable of auto-generating 360° panoramas up to 10 billion pixels in size. The user-controllable PTZ system can capture jobsite progress in super-high-definition for verifying compliance, disputing claims, and historic archival records. A specialized Nikon lens adds another element to this project management tool: With high-powered optics delivering a 17x optical zoom, users can examine specific areas on the jobsite in extreme detail, via 24 megapixel images.

RollerMouse Red

Contour Design

The ingenious device, with its integral roller design, eliminates the need to grip or reach for a mouse, which can strain the neck, shoulders, elbows, and wrists. Centered on the keyboard in an optimal work zone, it corrects posture and prevents repetitive-stress injury.

ScanSnap SV600 Contactless Scanner

Fujitsu

The ScanSnap SV600 Contactless scanner provides a new perspective on document scanning. It easily scans newspapers, magazines, documents, or books directly without cutting or damaging them, and compensates for curved pages with an image-flattening technology. There’s even a function that erases any errant appearances by a fingertip. It automatically detects when pages are turned, and allows users to set a timed interval for that operation. The scanner creates searchable PDFs and JPEGs.

Sprout

Hewlett-Packard

Part of Hewlett-Packard’s “blended reality” initiative, this machine is more than a Windows-based desktop computer. It’s also a dual-screen creative console with its own projector, a giant touch-enabled screen, and a 3D-capable scanner. Sprout aspires to bridge the gap from the real world to the virtual one, allowing users to interface with 3D products and hands-on creation. The product is the result of a partnership between HP, Microsoft, Intel, and 3M.

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