The DocuPen is about the size of a cigar (weighs 2 oz) and lets you scan documents and images from anywhere. Just glide the device over a printed page and the image is stored in internal memory. It comes with 8MB of Flash memory but this can be expanded with optional MicroSD memory cards to 2GB.
You can select black and white mode or standard color. An option for high 24bit color lets you select resolution from 100-400 dpi.
Earlier pen-sized scanners didn't scan a full page. They were more like highlighters and you hoped the areas you scanned were really being captured. The DocuPen scans the full page so you get the text and graphics s in one easy scan.  Earlier handheld scanners also needed to be connected to a PC but the DocuPen is completely portable. No cables or connections are needed to scan. You then download the documents from the device to your PC via the USB cable.
A version of PaperPort software is included so you can run optical character recognition on the documents to make them editable in your word processor.
It's the only portable scanner I have tried that is completely portable, scans full pages and can handle color.
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NOTE: This review first appeared in Dan Hanson's column in Inside Business Magazine.
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