Introducing the Epson WorkForce DS-30 Portable Document Scanner

Portable scanners are all the rage these days, which is great news for road warriors and pretty interesting for the rest of us, since it means that you we can organize our lives a bit easier without an enormous piece of equipment taking up half the desk. The soon-to-be released Epson WorkForce DS-30 weighs less than 12 ounces, making it very portable indeed; and since it's powered by a USB cable and thus requires no battery or AC power source, you're good to go if you've got your laptop handy. If you're scanning to the cloud, you can do it with one touch of a button, Epson claims, or to email, FTP, or a specific folder. The WorkForce DS-30 can scan from legal size to business cards, and correction tools automatically correct skewed images and remove punch holes from scanned documents. If you've got a hankering to get one, be patient: They're not available until March, when they will retail for $179.