I was a mere jig, doing my assigned job, which was servicing the automatic internal scanners and trying to find out who was getting into the lockers, and how.

Among the features offered by more expensive models are digital readouts, buttons that allow a listener to preset stations and automatic scanners that search the dial for the clearest signal.

But that little revolving disc above the villains' coach means only one thing - they have an automatic radio-wave scanner.

Cannot use transceiver-the bandits have an automatic radio-wave scanner in constant use.

The invention was an automatic scanner used by banks for sorting checks printed in magnetic ink.

Heikki shrugged, but before she could give her answer-that the automatic scanners were easily foxed- Djuro said solemnly, "Ah.

For a few precious moments, the captain was distracted by the pleasant, almost mesmerizing sounds of his bridge- the beeping and whirring of relays, capacitors, and automatic scanners.

Since we've already entered the atmosphere, the automatic scanners are no longer interested in us.

Turtle blinked and stabbed a finger at the control of his police-band radio, overriding the automatic scanner.

A spot on the diffusedly bright mistiness of a bowquartering visiplate grew brighter as the automatic scanner focused on it.