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Genealogy Gadgets and Cool Tools
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Pocket-size scanners for reading in information at the library, hand-held scanners, a digital watch camera, a mouse that reads microfilm, and other cool gadgets to make your genealogy research a little easier.

ImageMouse Digital Retrieval System
A revolutionary, new product developed and offered by DatagraphiX which allows the user to digitize and view an image from microfiche directly to a desktop PC with a simple point and click of the ImageMouse.

Kodak Smart Picture Frame
This ordinary looking picture frame replaces traditional photographic prints with a photo-realistic digital display with enough memory to store up to 36 pictures. You can also connect to the Story Box network and share/send photos to other Smart Picture Frame users.

Palm Pix
Turn your Palm handheld into a digital camera with the PalmPix from Kodak. You can even "hot sync" your photos to your PC with ease! Works with Palm III, V, and VII models.

Personal History Capsule
A keychain-sized capsule designed to store copies of precious documents on microfilm, with a life expectancy of 500 years! The capsule's price includes the cost of coverting up to 10 pages of documents to microfilm.

Pocket Reader
This hand-held scanner from Siemens is so small that it works as a "digital" highlighter.  It reads text from books, magazines, newspapers and other printed documents and is able to scan English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Wrist Camera
This revolutionary wrist-type, wearable digital camera by Casio has a black and white display but downloads pictures to your PC in color.  You'll never say "I wish I'd brought my camera" again!

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