What (who) is scanners - definition

1981 HORROR FILM DIRECTED BY DAVID CRONENBERG

Darryl Revok; Scanners (film); Cameron Vale; Ephemerol; ConSec; Biocarbon Amalgamate; Scanners (film series); Scanners head explosion

Image scanner

DEVICE THAT OPTICALLY SCANS IMAGES, PRINTED TEXT, HANDWRITING, OR AN OBJECT, AND CONVERTS IT TO A DIGITAL IMAGE

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An image scanner—often abbreviated to just scanner—is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting or an object and converts it to a digital image. Commonly used in offices are variations of the desktop flatbed scanner where the document is placed on a glass window for scanning.

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Full body scanner

DEVICE

Whole body scanner; Whole-body scanner; Full-body scanner; Body scanner; Bodyscanner; Security scan; Full Body Scan (Security); Full Body Scanner; Advanced Imaging Technology; Advanced imaging technology; Nudoscope; TSA scanner; Full body scanners; Advanced Imaging Technologies; Full-body scanning

A full-body scanner is a device that detects objects on or inside a person's body for security screening purposes, without physically removing clothes or making physical contact. Unlike metal detectors, full-body scanners can detect non-metal objects, which became an increasing concern after various airliner bombing attempts in the 2000s and some scanners can also detect swallowed items or hidden in body cavities of a person.

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scanner

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Scanning device; Scanner (disambiguation)

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1. Medicine a machine that examines the body through the use of radiation, ultrasound, or magnetic resonance imaging, as a diagnostic aid.

2. a device that scans documents and converts them into digital data.

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Scanners

Scanners is a 1981 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan. In the film, "scanners" are psychics with unusual telepathic and telekinetic powers. ConSec, a purveyor of weaponry and security systems, searches out scanners to use them for its own purposes. The film's plot concerns the attempt by Darryl Revok (Ironside), a renegade scanner, to wage a war against ConSec. Another scanner, Cameron Vale (Lack), is dispatched by ConSec to stop Revok.

Scanners premiered in January 1981 to lukewarm reviews from critics but became one of the first films produced in Canada to successfully compete with American films at the international box office. It brought Cronenberg and his controversial style of body horror attention from mainstream film audiences for the first time and has since been reevaluated as a cult classic. It is particularly well known for a scene that depicts Revok psychically causing a rival scanner's head to explode.

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