Casio to enter tablet market with twin-cam scanner

Odd company Casio. Everyone knows them as a watch and calculator manufacturer, but every now and then they make a foray into a completely new market. Back in the 1980s it was electronic instruments, not only the cheap and cheeful home keyboard market but the higher end stuff as well. They had a nice line in digital synthesisers (the CZ, VZ and FZ series) that were quite innovative and distinct from the FM based crap that was popular at the time. The later FZ series also had full sampling capabilities, at a time when FM had given way to tediously limited machines like the Korg M-1.

I was using a Casio touchscreen 'tablet'* computer at the start of the millennium, the PV-100. Even though it had a 128x128 display and you could not install any apps, it really did revolutionise my life.

Don't forget Casio's Camera's.....

I bought a Casio EX-S500 Camera in 2005 because it had mpeg4 recording at an really good price long before any other manufacturer within my price range for a point and shoot.

Two years later they even provided a firmware update to use allow the use of sdhc cards (they didn't exist when I bought the camera). I seriously doubt most other camera companies would bother to do provide an update two years down the line. It's still working perfectlytoday, I just need a new battery because mine doesn't hold much charge anymore, but I'm not going to blame Casio for that.

Every now and again Casio really do drop bombshells on their competition, lets hope this is another one.

As opposed to a 'scan to evernote' app?

Like the recent moleskin pad/app combination, for instance.

Or, for that matter those cheap pads that copy as JPG straight to your SD card.

whoopsie

Usually, I hope a technical site will mention the OS that a new piece of gear will be running.

Which in this instance is Android, for anyone who hasn't skipped to the link.