Frakkin' cool

When I read about this, I just thought it was amazing. For a start, just the sheer scale human ingenuity flash-of-brilliance to take a cheap CD player and convert it into a scanner like that just gives one a wonderful feeling, a sense of a 'can-do' spirit that will make anything work.

And then there's the plot device capability of it. I can already see crime shows now having lab scanners in cars etc... and actually have it based on real technology as opposed to pure plot device 'get to bit of information x' that currently drives it. Yes, okay, there's a big gap between getting information from a crime scene and putting it in a usable format on a CD that can be read by the player, but these kinds of details doesn't stop a writer.

Never let the lack of flashy and expensive equipment stop you from jerry-rigging a quick and easy fix, that's a great human trait. :)

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