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TipSquirrel and the Rocky Mountain Ventures Company are joining to together to give our lucky readers the chance to win a Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner!
If you haven’t heard of the Flip-Pal, you can read this review, but to recap, the Flip-Pal is a battery operated, completely cordless, little gem of a scanner! Simply flip it over, take a look at what you want to scan through the window, and scan. High Resolution 300 or 600 dpi, true color scans, are stored on the included SD card!
Nearly anything you can imagine can be scanned with this scanner, photos (framed and unframed!), books, documents, fabric, flowers…the list goes on!
Think of research trips to the Library – no more bad money eating copy machines! Digital scrapbookers? You can take this baby to fabric stores to get that perfect fabric for a background!
How To Win a Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner
There are so many things you can do with this, we can’t even think of them all, so why don’t you tell us?
If you had a Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner, what would you do with it?
Answer the question in a comment at the end of this post, (sorry only one comment only per person). You’ll have until Sunday, December 19, to enter. The winner will be chosen, by comment number with Random.org, and announced on Monday, December 20th! Family members of TipSquirrel.com writers (and the writers themselves, of course!) are not eligible to win, but everyone else should definitely go for it! What a great Christmas present this will make!
This prize package includes: the Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner (10.25″ x 6.5″ x 1.25″), four AA batteries, 2GB SD memory card, USB to SD adaptor, stitching and color restoration software, window protector sheet, Quick Start User Guide and One-Year limited warranty.
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I do a lot of Genealogy research and next to my laptop would be my new best friend ( a new Flip-Pal mobile scanner.. less printing and more pictures and book information the can be copies
Would love to win one. Could scan pics, needlework, documents, souvenirs, textiles… Can’t wait to become a scanning fool!
The scanner is great! It looks so easy to use,won’t damage fragile photos or documents. Easily scans large items and ‘knits’ them back together. It is incredible. I would use it for Vail Preservation Society.
I would use the flip-pal scanner to scan the large armor patterns i make so i could get it digitized easily
I would be able to easily go back and scan in all my old pictures including those from my parents. It would be so much easier than having to use a regular scanner.
I would love to be able to take a Flip-Pal to my scrapbooking store to scan the card they have on display from the company. Taking a picture with my camera is just not the same. I don’t get the right angle and don’t know how much of each card is fitting in the frame. With a Flip-Pal, I know exactly what will show up in the final version that I either print out or save to my computer.
Wendie
My husband and I are divorcing. I want a Flip-Pal to copy all the photo albums without having to rip everything apart! Save all the fighting over who gets what!
Anny
I would use a Flip-Pal to scan all my loose documents and keep them digitally, so I can get rid of all the bits of paper.
From what I have seen and read about the Flip-Pal Scanner there is so much versatility and how it can be used that it would be my next best buddy. When I go out to do research my laptop is #1 and I have also been taking along a Canon scanner which has been #2 and of course I have to plug that scanner in order to use it. It would be so much easier scanning photos when I visit elderly relatives and they show me all of their old photos. The best part is that the size of the photos would no longer matter given the stitch software of the Flip-Pal. I hope I win but if I don’t I’m sure the winner will so enjoy having the Flip-Pal.
My Mother’s family has several family photo albums put together by my Grandmother that were spread out among various family members after she passed away. They were of the type where the photos were glued on to black album pages. With the Flip-Pal I could visit each of the family members and easily scan the photos in the albums they have and then share them with all family members on the family photo web site.
My parents wrote in their will that they wanted me to copy and distribute all of their family pictures to various family members. I have boxes upon boxes of pictures that need to be sorted, scanned and copied onto cd’s. As you can imagine this is a monumental task. My computer scanner takes so long to scan a picture that I was wondering how on earth I would be able to scan all these pictures without it taking decades! Then I saw this device and it is definitely at the top of my wishlist. I am also the family genealogist, so this would come in handy to scan pictures that other family members own but aren’t willing to let leave the house long enough to make a copy. This is a wonderful product!
Wow, a Flip-Pal! I would scan business cards, my wife’s fabric collection for her sewing projects.
I will send it to relatives in Germany that are “technology challenged” and ask that they scan some crucial old photos that I need for my geneology research (and would LOVE to see).
They would never want to send me the photos for me to scan in (and with the danger of the photos getting lost – I would not want them to either).
I am not able to invest into a trip to visit them anytime soon either but those pictures might get lost easily (when folks pass away)… so time is crucial.
The beauty of this scanner is …
Those relatives know how to exchange batteries – and that’s all they have to do besides pushing the scan button.
If I would have to ask them to scan a photo and “attach” it to an email OR try to find a place that does it for them – it would never happen.
Now sending out this scanner and asking them to do this and send the scanner back to me when they are done – that’s doable for them.
The incentive I am planning for all of them is that I create a photobook through something like snapfish or picasa.
Hopefully I win – the oldest photo that I’d like to see is from the early 1900s (my grandma -who I never met- when she was a young child) and another one from her marriage 1927 … if I can get that because of this scanner – I’ll be happy to share (it probably is deterioriating further by the day already)!
Would love to win a new flip-pal for genealogy and local history projects! I am the newsletter editor and publications chair for our local society and this would be a remarkable tool to have!
Wow, the things I could do with this! As a genealogist, I could use it to scan old documents and photographs when on the go. As a quilter, I could use it to scan cool fabrics. As a mom, I can use it to scan my son’s artwork (cause I don’t have room to keep it all!). I’m sure I can come up with even more uses for it over time. What a cool product!
Both my daughter and I create designs for various products on the fly. We draw on napkins, scrap paper, desk calendars, even magazine margins and other inappropriate places that must be erased or discarded. The designs flow when and where ever the inspiration hits. This Flip Pal would make collecting these “inspirations” so easy. This would be much better than hand copying them which often results in loss of subtleties from the original. The ability to download to a computer would guaranty
the idea will be preserved and easily found when needed. Great product! Thank you for coming up with this useful thing.
Oh, Velvet Squirrel & Queen of Rrestorations, how I love you. Will this help me win? No? OK. Then I will take it to Montana to a little old house near the Canadian border and scan thousands of RPPCs in a box, and I’m not telling you exactly where. It is my secret.
-fM
That scanner would be perfect to take to the courthouse to scan marriage licenses and to the newspaper office to scan old obituaries in doing my genealogy and to scan a bunch of old photos of relatives to include in my Family Tree.
What would i scan you ask? Well I say what wouldn’t i scan? First things first i would scan in all my photo albums and framed pictures. Luckily i wouldn’t even bother with taking them out of the frames. So with the time I saved, i think i might get creative and scan some fabric for my photo shop textures folder. I think would try my hand at scanning some fall leaves for some upcoming projects. With that being done i would capture some pressed flowers i have, digital is forever. Once i have the fun stuff done i would move to what would be more painful… Manuals I keep them all and warranty cards too. Would be so nice to reclaim those draws in the file cabinet. Now with all the time i saved using my Flip Pal i can get back to whats important, My beautiful family. Yup, I need one!
This is such a fantastic opportunity..would love to win this prize! If I were to win one of these, I would definitely go on a scanning frenzy, scanning family artwork, old family heirlooms, jewelery, photos and many old and important documents. This would be the most amazing Christmas present I could get!
If I had a Flip-Pal scanner I would be in heaven. I would scan all those photos and documents grandma and auntie won’t allow to leave the house. Then, when I go to the library or court house I can capture all the documents there to share with the world. I can’t even imagine how valuable it would be in so many diffrent settings. Hope I win so I can try them all.
I’m an Art Director for a small newspaper in my town. I’m always having to go to clients’ locations to talk to them about ads. Without fail, 1 out of 3 of them will hand me something to include in an ad (that they of course want back). Most of them don’t have scanners (or even computers) of their own, so I end up making several trips across town just to get the necessary components for an ad.
If I hand some sort of handheld scanner, It would save me gas, wear on my vehicle and stress.
Aside from taking the Flip Pal to scrapbook crops to “scraplift” pages from my scrapbook friends, I would take it to Israel with me to visit my family and be able to scan all the pictures they constantly are taking – with a camera I bought for them – and then on the long flight home, I can look at them in my computer and get rid of the ones I don’t want and save the ones I want. By the time I get home, I’ll be ready for my vacation scrapbook.
This is very cool! There’s no end to the list of uses I could find for this gem!
I often visit relatives with photographs I want to copy, this would be perfect!
If I had a Flip Pal Mobile Scanner I would all the old photos that I don’t have a copy of and share them with friends and family.
I’ve always been to cheap to buy myself a scanner which I admit is pretty stupid. So if I had a Flip Pal I would draw more custom patterns like I did for my self portrait. Then I could scan the drawing instead of photographing it which would save me a lot of time.
This is so cool. I would love one to scan family pictures when I visit relatives and cards I make for classes.
Thanks for this! I would definitely scan family pictures. So many have been lost over the years due to natural disasters, etc.
I would love to have a flip-pal mobile scanner! I could take it to so many places to scan documents for my genealogy hobby. I could even take it to Italy to scan the documents of my ancestors there. I would really love to win the mobile scanner!
I would love to have the Flip Pal scanner. I want to visit all my relatives and scan pictures they have in their albums of my parents and family. They are not all high-tech so I will be bringing whatever I can to get copies of the pictures. Lots of times the pictures are stuck in the books. This would be a great tool to have for this and a million other projects. I have seen Janine use it to scan an old family document for me that was too curled up to put on a flat bed scanner. It did a fantastic job…and with Janine doing the repair work the result was unbelievable! She is a genius!
I am a road warrior and my customers are always handing me something written on paper. My car is a mess! I would scan and clean so someone can finally sit in the back seat.!
If I had a Flip Pal I would finally be able to scan photos held hostage by relatives who won’t let them out of their sight.
I love my scanner. It is great for scanning business cards and certificates of completion. Then they can be retrieved electronically.
Would love to win a Flip Pal Mobile Scanner for my daughter who has been a great genealogist for the last 10 years. She has found lots of missing relatives and been copying pictures for her blog to send out to many relatives to identify. Our family tree has expanded in many ways in the last few years and other members of the family are sending her pictures by the shoebox full to scan and return.
The Flip Pal Mobil Scanner would great for scanning oversized documents and hard to scan scrapbook/photo albums. It would be an asset to have when visiting family to scan their photos.
We at the Mitchell Area Historical Society feel this is just the scanner to fit our needs. Like other comments in reference to the wand type, too many problems. It would indeed be an honor to win this unit that would enhance our capabilities.
The main problem with wand scanners is that any little bump turns the scanner off, plus you cannot see what you are scanning. The flip pal corrects these two problems. As a genealogist I scan many historical items. I would love to give this dandy little machine a work out.
What a cool little scanner! I have an older flatbed, which is a pain to use, cause we share it and it needs to be connected each time. We have a bin next to it and just toss everything to scan in it: drawings from the kids we want to preserve (there’s a book in there somewhere), school documents, receipts for big household purchases, and on and on. It would be sooo much easier to scan items literally ‘on the spot’ and be done with it–so much less clutter. And we all can use less clutter in our lives, now can we? So, really, if I win, I’ll be helping the environment–yeah, that’s it!
thank you for this opportunity. In addition to genealogy and historical research and personal clutter reduction; I want to explore in situ scanning of insects and plant diseases for plant problem diagnosis and record. This will generate images useful for training Master Gardeners and Ag Professionals