20-Megapixel image? Bah, kid-stuff. How about a camera that can capture and recreate a scene in 3d on your computer?

How about being able to walk around and visualize some place that you were at a week (or a year) ago?

Let’s talk… but what’s said here stays here, capice?

From Leica (yes, that Leica) comes the ScanStation 2 which is actually a laser-scanner that, when used in conjunction with the built-in digital camera, takes a point-cloud (think of pixels that, instead of in a flat-plane like a digital camera photo, the pixels are in the shape of what you just shot) to recreate and describe a crime-scene for forensics and Evidence in court.

From Leica comes this: “What kind of information does it collect?

Both photographic and measurement data. The photo captured is a high-resolution “full-dome” spherical photo of the scene which users can navigate and zoom into. The measurement data captured by the scanner is called a “point cloud” and investigators can use this information to easily determine any desired dimension at any time, even years after the event. No more missing measurements after the scene has been released. If you can see it, you can scan it.”

Pretty cool, huh? It’s been a “star” on television already and Police Departments are snapping them up to give them one more tool in the battle of good over evil.

If you have the cash (lots I assume) and have an interest, check it out here.

Don’t tell anybody I told you, don’t leave any evidence behind, don’t leave the gun and take the cannoli, capice?